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Recipe for the banana nut bread with salted caramel sauce
It can be served hot or cold, smeared with butter or without, as a dessert or as breakfast. A simple recipe, fast and almost infallible....
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Dominika
- Jun 14, 2019
- 1 min
The Last Chinese Chef, by Nicole Mones
Then the beggar's chicken. It looked at first like a foil-wrapped whole bird, but he undid it, folded back layers of crinkly baking bags,...
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Dominika
- Jun 14, 2019
- 3 min
Sources and further reading for the beggar's chicken post
Basler, B. (1990, April 08). FARE OF THE COUNTRY; Hong Kong's Mystery Chicken. Retrieved from The New York Times:...
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Dominika
- Jun 14, 2019
- 11 min
Cooking fiascos: beggar’s chicken (jiào huā jī, 叫化鸡)
"Then the beggar's chicken. It looked at first like a foil-wrapped whole bird, but he undid it, folded back layers of crinkly baking...
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Dominika
- Jun 3, 2019
- 4 min
Recipe for the smashed cucumber salad (拍黄瓜 pāi huángguā)
Dear M., For the past few weeks the thermometers in Beijing have been reading temperatures over 30°C. Although there have been a few...
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Dominika
- May 15, 2019
- 2 min
The Cookbook Club - second meeting
Inviting people for dinner at home has become a real challenge. Chances that one or many of our friends are either celiac, vegetarian,...
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Dominika
- Apr 28, 2019
- 3 min
Sources and further reading for the post on coffee in Yunnan
ICC. (2015). Coffee in China. Retrieved from http://www.ico.org/documents/cy2014-15/icc-115-7e-study-china.pdf Angelico, I. (Director)....
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Dominika
- Apr 28, 2019
- 12 min
Talking about coffee in Yunnan with Mark from Manlao River
“This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand...
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Dominika
- Mar 21, 2019
- 3 min
The Cookbook Club - first meeting
Dear M., I can’t remember whether I mentioned it in my last letter -or not-, that recently, my friends and I started a Cookbook club,...
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Dominika
- Feb 21, 2019
- 1 min
The sweet treats at the End of the Chinese Year
“They’re called ‘classics’ for a reason”, goes the saying when it comes to food. Ayi sure believes so. “They just don’t resemble those...
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Dominika
- Jan 22, 2019
- 1 min
Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Vol. I) by Beck, Bertholle, and Child
Along the Mediterranean, an aïgo bouïdo is considered to be very good indeed for the liver, blood circulation, general physical tone, and...
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Dominika
- Jan 21, 2019
- 1 min
The Englishman’s Doctor by Sir John Harrington
Garlic then have power to save from death Bear with it though it maketh unsavoury breath, And scorn not garlic like some that think, It...
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Dominika
- Jan 21, 2019
- 1 min
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime. Old garlic, burnt...
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Dominika
- Jan 19, 2019
- 1 min
No country for garlic haters - a few light verses
Memory is fragile, people often forget, spirits and vampires I was set out to chase, all of the times I’ve been invoked to protect, a...
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Dominika
- Jan 19, 2019
- 2 min
Sources and further reading for the garlic post
Afzal, M., Ali , M., Thomson , M., & Armstron , D. (2000). Garlic and its medicinal potential. Inflammopharmacology, 8(2), 123–148....
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Dominika
- Jan 19, 2019
- 9 min
No country for garlic haters
I am brushing my teeth for the second time and stuffing a piece of chewing gum into my mouth, praying that the ultra potent radioactive...
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Dominika
- Jan 13, 2019
- 3 min
Recipe for the Chocolate Chip Cookies
Dear M., Children are fair and impartial judges. What they like they like, what they hate they hate. This is most evident in food. It ...
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Dominika
- Jan 8, 2019
- 3 min
The Holiday Season
In recent years our Christmas have been exotic and colorful, different cities, different cultures. Once we celebrated it in Kota Kinabalu...
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Dominika
- Dec 10, 2018
- 4 min
Recipe for the pecan pie
Dear M., As usual, receiving your letters is a delight. Your account of the kunafa you prepared last week was so vivid that I could...
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Dominika
- Dec 9, 2018
- 4 min
Recipe for the beer duck
Dear M., I begin this letter by apologizing for not having responded in such a long time. Please do not think that I had forgotten it....
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