Articles in the Recipes Category
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Edible vanillin (vanilla planifolia) is native to Mexico and is now widely grown throughout the tropics but Madagascar is the world’s largest producer. Vanilla pompona and Vanilla tahitiensis are grown in Tahiti and Niue even …
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Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is an ancient spice and was used over 4000 years ago in Vedic cooking and religious rituals. It belongs to the ginger family and is native to the tropical parts of South …
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In Ancient Greece and Rome, bay leaves and branches were used as wreaths to crown winners and garlands of bay leaves were used at the Olympic Games. The word, baccalaureat refers to laurel berries …
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Cooking without spices seems unthinkable and unbearably boring – so, because we’ve already covered salt and pepper recently, we’ve decided to continue in this vein and include spices on the shopping list. The use of spices …
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The Greeks believe that eating out and sharing one’s meal is as important as the food itself – it’s known as paraia – and in Lawrence Durrell’s words, it’s a transcendence of the dinner table …
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Around 400 BC, the Greeks often held banquets like the Symposium where much was discussed and wine was consumed in vast quantities. The affair started in the early evening when the host’s wife and his …
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The Capital of Greece is Athens and it is here where democracy was first debated and then born, where the wise men of old first developed the basics of education, medicine and law and it …
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The region of Tikves in the heart of Macedonia has always been identified with it’s viniculture. The Mediterranean climate of the Vardar river valley with it’s rich thermal and mineral sources, fertile soil, several lakes …
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Côte d’Ivoire has often been in the news lately because of vehement political differences between the parties – so vehement, in fact, that some of the clashes caused fatalities – which really is nothing new …
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Abidjan is set astride a lagoon and today is home to about 2,7 million people – it’s a modern city with French as the common language for doing business although most people can speak or, …
