Dominika
Old world Landowners, by Nikolai Gogol.
After that, Afanasy Ivanovich would go back in and, approaching Pulkheria Ivanova, would say: “Well, now, Pulkheria Ivanovna, isn´t it...
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Dominika
- Feb 4, 2021
- 1 min
Pan de Yuca Ballad, by Hernando Martínes Rueda -Martinón- (own translation)*
It's the best thing to bite, pandeyuca we all must have Pandeyuca is a gem from colonial times our grandparents didn´t know how without...
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Dominika
- Dec 26, 2019
- 1 min
Ljubljana, by Rodolfo Häsler (own translation)*
He goes through an alley of chipped walls, nosing around in Austro-Hungarian barracks he highlights a few phrases in blood gothic,...
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Dominika
- Nov 27, 2019
- 1 min
Popular folk song about the Guyang oat noodle
The oat noodle I have in the mountains is white and chewy, Give you a mouthful of flavor, Fill your belly substantially, And energize you...
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Dominika
- Nov 11, 2019
- 1 min
Carrot cake, by Linda Chen
You said you liked carrot cake, right? Lemon cream cheese icing. I’ll make one. With lashings and lashings of cream cheese, you can just...
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Dominika
- Nov 8, 2019
- 1 min
Paper Lantern, by Stuart Dybek
We sit at one of the five Formica tables –our favorite, beside the window- and the waitress immediately brings the menu and tea. Really,...
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Dominika
- Nov 8, 2019
- 1 min
Paper Lantern, by Stuart Dybek
It’s a restaurant that used to be a Chinese laundry. When customers would come for their freshly laundered bundles, the cooking –wafting...
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Dominika
- Nov 3, 2019
- 1 min
Moment in Peking, by Lin Yutang
Copying the southern custom of making “beggars’ chicken,” she would bring out for a picnic a whole chicken, with the entrails taken out,...
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Dominika
- Nov 3, 2019
- 1 min
Moment in Peking, by Lin Yutang
Before they left the temple to wander among the various yards and buildings in the park, the monks had asked whether they should serve a...
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Dominika
- Nov 3, 2019
- 1 min
Moment in Peking, by Lin Yutang
Many of the things Mannia experienced were not entirely new to her, but everything was done better or was prettier than in her home town...
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Dominika
- Nov 3, 2019
- 1 min
Moment in Peking, by Lin Yutang
Now, the grandmother had brought from Shantung some country- style tsungtse. These were solid triangles made of glutinous rice stuffed...
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Dominika
- Nov 3, 2019
- 1 min
Moment in Peking, by Lin Yutang
Now, the girls of higher families were not supposed to be out in the streets unchaperoned. But Mulan was only fourteen and her sister...
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Dominika
- Nov 2, 2019
- 1 min
A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
At one in the morning, the conspirators took their seats. On the table before them were a single candle, a loaf of bread, a bottle of...
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Dominika
- Nov 2, 2019
- 1 min
A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
Stanislav apologetically placed the bowl and platter on the table, even as Emile waved him from the room. Once he was gone, the chef...
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Dominika
- Nov 2, 2019
- 1 min
A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
Removing the silver dome from the serving plate, the actress revealed one of Emile’s signature dishes: whole bass roasted with black...
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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
- 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
- Dec 5, 2018
- 1 min
An Oxcart for a Dowry, by Wang Zhenhe
Wang Zhenhe (1940 -1990) was a Taiwanese fiction writer. As a prominent member of the “nativist movement” he was concerned with exposing...
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