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A Stir Through The Recent History of Singapore Noodles, A Street-Food Phenomenon
At this point, you’ve probably tried Singapore street noodles in one of their many iterations. A mainstay of Chinese takeaway spots, food trucks, and, in pockets of Southeast Asia, hawker centers, the ochre-hued dish almost always contains rice vermicelli, curry...
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Bowl Of Resistance: The Complex Origins of Pho, Vietnam’s National Dish
While most of the dishes that have inspired Laroot meals possess a history dating back hundreds of years, some of them, even if they do have centuries-old predecessors, came into popular existence in modern times. One of them is pho,...
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Going Green: A Brief History of Pesto
One of many Laroot-subscriber favorites is our High Italian lunch: a medley of brown-rice rigatoni, sun-dried tomatoes, blanched kale, and hemp seeds, tossed with a traditional basil pesto that honors the sauce’s roots in Liguria. Derived from the Italian verb pestare,...
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Ecuador
Our curiosity and passion for culinary wisdom takes us to destinations all around the world. Recently, we found ourselves in Ecuador, a cultural treasure nestled in northwestern South America. From the Andes Mountains, to the Amazon basin, to the Galapagos...