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Choose herbs for the food you plan to cook and for what is abundant where you shop, rather than following a universal calendar. Learn how to store tender and sturdy-stemmed herbs, and how to use surplus by freezing or drying it.
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Drying, salting, smoking, fermenting and, later, using cold or heat are chapters in a culinary history shaped by adaptation, knowledge and culture. This account considers what changed—and what endured—without mistaking tradition for preservation instructions.
A family recipe book is more than a set of instructions: it preserves choices, habits, and voices. This guide shows how to read one with curiosity, record what is missing, and cook from it without treating family memory as a universal recipe.
Market cuisine is more than a way of shopping: it connects availability, seasonality, techniques, customs and local economies. We explore its historical context and offer a practical guide to what the term can mean in a contemporary kitchen, without presenting a single origin as established fact.
Spoken recipes did not disappear when books, television, and the internet arrived. Their company changed: observation and practice now coexist with writing and digital formats, each with its own possibilities and limits.
A guide to reading a municipal market as a place of provisioning, conversation, and change—without confusing tradition, food-service offerings, and a guarantee of quality.
Rather than a fixed category, spoon dishes are a way to recognise brothy, thick or semi-liquid preparations and the local histories that sustain them. This guide considers them through place, home transmission and shared meals.
Celebratory meals are situated cultural practices: they bring together memory, ingredients, techniques, relationships, and social change. A guide to reading and planning them respectfully.
A guide to reading a municipal market as a place of food supply, conversation, culinary memory, and urban change—without turning it into a postcard.
A guide to seeing daily baking as a craft, a working sequence, and a cultural practice—without reducing it to one recipe or a romantic image.
Celebration meals are ways of sharing, remembering, and expressing identity. This framework helps readers understand and plan them respectfully, without turning a living tradition into a fixed recipe.
Fresh boerewors grilled until browned all over and served in four portions.
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An Iranian stew of lamb or beef with fresh herbs, red kidney beans and dried limes, slowly cooked until the meat is tender.
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A Portuguese rice dessert cooked in milk scented with lemon and cinnamon, enriched with egg yolks and finished with ground cinnamon.
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A simple Australian bread made with self-raising flour, olives and rosemary; this version is baked and served freshly made.
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A sour-and-spicy Thai shrimp and mushroom soup scented with galangal, lemongrass and makrut lime leaves. It includes homemade nam prik pao paste.
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Spiced-potato-stuffed flatbread made with a soft dough and cooked on a griddle until golden.
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Cooked fava beans, partly mashed and dressed with garlic, lemon, cumin, and olive oil.
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Creamy Portuguese rice pudding cooked with milk infused with lemon and cinnamon, enriched with egg yolks and butter.
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Creamy chowder for 4, with clams, mussels, prawns and white fish. Total time stated by the reference source: 35 minutes.
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