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Super Sardines from Spain
If you check with some of the most serious sardine lovers in the US ten years from now, and ask them to name the go-to spot to find their favorite forms of these delicious little … Continued
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Recipe: Sciaki Sciuka
Sciaki Sciuka (pronounced shah-key shoo-kah) appears in restaurants and on home tables across Pantelleria. When I visited in September, I ate sciaki sciuka almost every day. Like all dishes that originated at home, each version … Continued
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Take the Zingerman’s Tour de Food in November/December and Help Your Neighbors in Need!
Take a trip around the Land of a Thousand Flavors and make a contribution to Double Up Food Bucks, an innovative and effective program that provides healthy food to those in need in our state … Continued
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Tips for cooking with capers
A few tips I picked up on using capers on Pantelleria: To rinse or not to rinse? Unsurprisingly, salt packed capers are pretty salty. Cooks are often advised to rinse capers before using them. But … Continued
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Why are capers better than caperberries?
Capers are the pickled flower buds of the caper plant. Eating flower buds isn’t so weird; a quick internet search pulls up guides and recipes. However, the unique thing about the caper is that if … Continued
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Caper vs. caper?
What’s the relationship between a caper (“a crime, esp. an organized robbery”) and a caper (“a pickled flower bud of the caper plant”)? I wish I had a good story about an elaborate pickled flower … Continued