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Dish highlight: The KC Soup and Japchae
In Korea soup is a love language in itself. There are four words for it (guk, tang, jigae and jeongol), and one to honor every celebratory occasion. Served year round as both a main and a side, it brings warmth,...
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Celebrating Passover, The Feast of Unleavened Bread
Passover, or Pesach, began at sundown on Wednesday and ends at sundown next Thursday. One of the most widely observed Jewish holidays, Passover commemorates the sparing of the ancient Israelites’ firstborn sons (the “passing over” of the angel of death)...
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Simmered Down: Exploring The Building Blocks Of Tagine, Morocco’s Hallmark Stew
Redolent of slow-cooked meat and high-spiced syrup, there’s nothing more poetically evocative of Moroccan cuisine than tagine, the quintessential Berber stew prepared in the conical earthenware vessel of the same name. Traditional tagines are composed of lamb with dried prunes...
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Bringing Up Baby: Pregnancy Nutrition And Laroot
During pregnancy, there’s nothing more vital than consuming a well-balanced diet of whole foods high in lean protein, complex carbohydrates, healthy fats, fiber, and essential vitamins and minerals (especially calcium). It’s generally recommended, of course, that half of one’s plate...
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Transcontinental Hospitality: The Well-Traveled Roots of Escabeche
Perhaps it goes without saying that the simplest of heritage dishes were born from resourcefulness and absolute necessity. Such is certainly the case with escabeche, a Spanish mainstay with Moorish roots which, in the traditional sense, refers to fish fried...
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Rite of Spring: Celebrating Nowruz, The Persian New Year
Dating back 2,600 years to the epoch of ancient Zoroastrianism, Nowruz (Farsi for “new day”), also known as the Persian New Year, is the celebration of the arrival of spring for more than 300 million people in Iran and throughout...