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Asparagus, peas, broad beans, artichokes and tender greens signal spring. Learn to read the seasonal calendar flexibly, choose vegetables in good condition and organize storage without treating seasonality as a rigid rule.
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Brazil’s culinary traditions are best explored through specific places and preparations rather than a single national menu. From Bahia’s acarajé and vatapá to Minas Gerais’s cheese bread and Pernambuco’s layered bolo de rolo, ingredients, techniques, work, and occasions reveal regional identities and histories of exchange.
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Bolivia’s foodways are best approached through their varied landscapes and the places where people cook, sell, and share food. In the Andean west, sajta brings chicken, ají, potatoes, and tunta together; api morado is a hot, thick maize drink often paired with fried or baked foods. In the eastern lowlands, cuñapé draws on yuca starch and cheese, with baked, fried, and twice-baked forms. Peanut soup offers another view of regional and household variation. These dishes are not a complete national canon: their ingredients, serving customs, and local versions show how culinary knowledge is carried through everyday meals, markets, and celebrations.
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Explore hilsa with mustard, steamed pitha, Dhaka biriyani and bakarkhani, and the movement of culinary knowledge between river communities and cities.
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Australia’s foodways span Indigenous knowledge, colonial-era breads and pies, migration-shaped urban cooking and ingredients from diverse land and water environments. Barramundi, damper, ANZAC biscuits and pub-style parmigiana offer specific ways into this varied culinary landscape, while regional examples from the Top End, Tasmania and Melbourne show how place, community and changing habits meet at the table.
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Explore Japanese food through its varied pantry, regional preparations, and everyday ways of eating. Rice, fermented seasonings, clear broths, noodles, portable rice parcels, and griddled dishes reveal a cuisine shaped by exchange and local adaptation rather than a single national menu.
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A journey through Spanish cuisines, their territories, exchanges and life around the table. A first guide to exploring their diversity without reducing it to one dish.
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How to use a scale, keep it clean and stable, approach calibration carefully, and respond to a specific coin-cell battery recall.
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Turn chickpeas, lentils, or beans into salads, sautés, soups, or bowls. A flexible guide to making use of what you have, without inventing quantities or overlooking storage guidance.
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Drying, salting, fermenting and pickling grew from the need to store food and make seasonal resources last. Today, those methods coexist with refrigeration and modern processing, while continuing to express knowledge, place and identity. Here is what has changed—and what to keep in mind when exploring these techniques.
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Learn to recognize ripeness, choose a texture suited to each dish, and make the most of yellow plantains in sweet or savory preparations—without relying on universal cooking times or temperatures.
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A practical guide to recognizing Dijon-style mustard, choosing it for different dishes and using it in dressings, sauces and warm recipes. For storage, follow the jar: the available sources do not establish a general shelf life.
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A practical guide to understanding Japanese cuisine beyond sushi: how to navigate everyday dishes, regional specialties, and different kinds of restaurants without reducing a diverse food culture to a list of clichés.
A Provençal stew of eggplant, zucchini, bell pepper, tomato, onion, and garlic, cooked separately and combined at the end. Serves 4; timings are approximate.
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A sour Filipino soup with pork ribs, tamarind, and vegetables. Makes 6 servings; timings are estimates.
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A warm Indonesian salad of vegetables, potatoes, egg, tofu and tempeh, served with peanut sauce. Serves 4; timings are approximate.
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Basmati rice with a golden, crisp saffron-and-yogurt base. Makes about 4 servings; timings are approximate, and the initial cooking time may vary with the rice.
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A Georgian chicken stew slowly cooked with onion, tomato, garlic, and coriander. Serving size and preparation time are estimates.
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A generous platter of red beans, rice, ground beef, crispy pork belly, chorizo, blood sausage, egg, ripe plantain, arepa, and avocado. Serves 4; timings are approximate.
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A Nepali stew of potatoes, bamboo shoots and black-eyed beans, seasoned with spices in a gently tangy broth.
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An Egyptian dish of rice, lentils, chickpeas and pasta, served with spiced tomato sauce and fried onion. Makes 2 servings; times are approximate.
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Beef heart skewers marinated with ají panca, garlic, vinegar, and spices, then grilled. Serves 4; estimated preparation time: 35 minutes, plus at least 12 hours of resting and about 10 minutes of cooking.
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