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The Washington DC sauce drenched in debate
When one mentions Washington DC, to outsiders, a few predictable images come to mind: the White House; monuments and museums; endless bureaucracy; and the never-ending soap opera that is US politics.
By Gay4 years ago in Feast
Pho: The humble soup that caused an outrage
When an American blogger named Tieghan Gerard naively dubbed her quick noodle soup recipe "chicken pho", it caused a storm in a soup bowl. She was accused of whitewashing the iconic Vietnamese dish and misappropriating a culture and its people. Although the creator of Half Baked Harvest with millions of followers apologised and renamed her recipe "sesame chicken and noodles in spicy broth", many Vietnamese Americans believe the title change was not sufficient and that the issue extends far beyond food, especially with the current rise in hate crimes targeting Asian Americans.
By Gay4 years ago in Feast
Qurt: A Kazakh "cheese of resilience"
As a child in newly independent Kazakhstan, I yearned to snack on candy bars, soft drinks and anything foreign and packaged. Instead, my mother would buy salty, sour snacks that resembled white chocolate truffles, but were in fact hardened balls of sour cheese. At local bazaars, I'd see aunties cheerfully selling small batches of these homemade goods packed in cellophane.
By Gay4 years ago in Feast
Guaraná: The edible 'eyes of the Amazon'
The pristine stretch of sand on Ponta da Maresia beach is a gathering point in the Brazilian town of Maués. Early risers head down to swim in warm waters that have neither waves nor salt, for the beach is on the banks of the Maués-Acú River in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, some 1,000km from the ocean.
By Gay4 years ago in Feast
The untapped power of Patagonian berries
When José Luis Calfucura looks back on his childhood trips to the ancestral Mapuche heartland of La Araucanía – a lush landscape of emerald lakes and puffing volcanoes in the south-central part of Chile – his memories often involve purple teeth.
By Gay4 years ago in Feast
The Moral Necessity of Veganism
Please join me in imagining a planet where the following happens – billions of cats and dogs are raised in unpleasant conditions, killed and then eaten by humans. Now, imagine that these dogs and cats feel as much pain, if not more, than humans, that the planet’s scientists have shown how eating them is harmful to humans and that the process of growing and killing them is destroying the planet’s ecosystem. Please take a moment to reflect on this.
By Taufik Olu4 years ago in Feast
Tempting Beginnings
Europe Scandinavia Gravlax is a delicious appetizer that consists of raw, salt-cured salmon seasoned with dill. This dish originated when fishermen would bury the salt, sugar, and dill-rubbed salmon above the high tide line to ferment. Today it is all done under refrigeration. Gravlax can be served in many ways among them pieces on crackers with cream cheese or on pieces of bread with different kinds of spreads, and the flavor can be enhanced but adding some freshly ground pepper.
By Rasma Raisters4 years ago in Feast
How to Stop Smoking for Good and the Factors That Influence Smoking Habits
While some people start smoking later in life, many people become addicted to cigarettes while they are still in school. The different internal and extrinsic elements that encourage smoking and ultimately lead to addiction are covered in this article. Learn about some convenient ways to stop smoking, including how to use Champix and other smoking cessation drugs.
By Fitness_Port994 years ago in Feast
The 10 healthiest foods you should eat
Hi everyone! I shared with you healthy weight loss tips two months ago and now I'm back to share with you the top ten healthy foods you should be eating.
By Feven G4 years ago in Feast
Alaska's 'mushroom of immortality'
Black Gold. The Diamond of the Forest. The Mushroom of Immortality. Hearing the chaga fungus referred to by its many nicknames, it's easy to imagine sparkling gemstones and tendrils of precious metals hanging from trees. Instead, chaga protrudes parasitically on the trunk of the boreal birch; bulbous, black and more reminiscent of bark than fungi.
By Seamons Mahall4 years ago in Feast
Pice hotels: A lifeline for Kolkata's hungry workers
Pice hotels offered both familiarity and nourishment to these homesick young men It's easy to miss the narrow entry to Hotel Sidheshwari Ashram, tucked in the alley behind Kolkata's Sir Stuart Hogg Market (New Market), but it's the fragrant whiff of fish seared in mustard oil that directs customers to the door. It's rush hour and the restaurant, one of Kolkata's few remaining pice hotels, is packed to the gills: waiters in bright orange livery dart in and out of the kitchen; bowlfuls of vegetables, fish and meat preparations accompany mounds of rice laid out on banana leaf plates. An accountant perched between the staircase and the dining room keeps score of every serve. The seats lining the marble-top tables fill up in quick succession as hungry office workers break for lunch.
By Gay4 years ago in Feast
Where a meal without beans is incomplete
In mid-February this year, if it weren't for the pandemic, hordes of Brazilians and travellers would have packed out Carnival street parties and sambadrome parades for five uninterrupted days of music and dancing. Those in Rio or São Paulo would certainly have come across the black bean-based feijoada, Brazil's flagship stew and an omnipresent meal in south-eastern Carnival celebrations. In Bahia's capital, Salvador, revellers would have likely feasted on acarajé, a typical Afro-Bahian fritter made of black-eyed peas.
By Gay4 years ago in Feast