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Enjoy Your Chow
“As-salamu alaykum!”, a familiar greeting in the Middle East meaning “peace be upon you.” I gave and received this greeting a thousand times while I was overseas with the Marine Corps in 2008. It was just about the only thing I knew how to say. Everything else was a low form of sign language that often made me look like an uneducated ape. Regardless of the language barrier I managed to explore some markets from time to time and came across some interesting foods.
By Kyle C Collins5 years ago in Feast
Seaweed Birthday Soup
In Korea, miyeok-guk (seaweed soup) is also known as birthday soup. It’s the first soup mothers are fed after giving birth, and it’s eaten every year afterward in remembrance. It’s a clear broth, heavy with seaweed and tiny pieces of beef. I grew up eating seaweed soup. My mother didn’t cook, but she did miss Korean food and would sometimes ask one of my Korean great-aunts to cook for us. I loved those meals. Often we would be too eager to take the soup to the table and would eat it standing in the kitchen, slurping up the hot salty liquid and slippery wakame. My mother would be there too, standing in her slippers and a bathrobe, making small noises of pleasure as she ate. It was one of my favorite things— watching her enjoy food. She spent a lot of my childhood on extreme diets, but she could never say no to seaweed soup.
By Leigh Foster 5 years ago in Feast
Puerto Rican Sofrito
My trip to Puerto Rico changed the way I cooked in my house. I am talking about the Puerto Rican sofrito. I came by this amazing marinade on my trip to Puerto Rico one summer. All over Puerto Rico the food is good and savory. When I came to one street vendor, I just had to ask what their secret was. I was told it was sofrito.
By Desiree Minerva 5 years ago in Feast
Cannoli di Sicilia
There are three main tenets to being Sicilian – God, family and food; and not necessarily in that order. My branch of the family may well be the only bunch of Sicilians in the Universe who are not religious. In fact, we take great pleasure from poking fun at my Uncle’s fountain of Mother Mary, which apparently had to take priority over ensuring there was sufficient parking space in his country villa. We often imagine the amusement of switching the mosquito-filled water with the velvety hue of some homemade red wine and watching my Uncle’s baffled expression as he contemplated whether Mary had, in fact, paid his villa a visit in the night.
By Oliver Conte5 years ago in Feast
ISO 22000 Certification in Nigeria
ISO 22000 Certification in Nigeria 2.64% of the total world population belongs to Nigeria. Therefore, it is not a surprise that Nigeria is the most populated country in Africa with about 210 million people. Sadly, with an increase in population, the rate of diseases and illnesses also increases.
By Finecert SEO5 years ago in Feast
An Argentinian Asado
The gauchos helped us off our horses. Lo siento I said, in my terrible Spanish accent. I wanted to explain my apology was for all the sweat I had dripped on the horse and saddle. Riding a horse for the first time had been significantly more stress-inducing than I expected, not to mention that the gauchos had led us up a fairly steep mountain for our trek here in the Andes.
By David Spivak5 years ago in Feast
