Tacos and How They Shaped Our World

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TACOS DE RAJAS CON CREMA INGREDIENTS 2 tablespoons vegetable oil (2 tablespoons more later) 4 poblano or Anaheim chiles 1 garlic clove 1 medium onion ½ pound Oaxacan cheese or queso fresco 1½ cups crema […]

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Coconut Pepper Steak and Xavier Cougat, Mathematician

Mauretanian Entree COCONUT PEPPER STEAK INGREDIENTS 2 cups rice 3 tablespoons cornstarch ¼ cup dry white wine 3 green bell peppers 3 garlic cloves 3 pounds beef tenderloin 2 cubes beef bouillon ⅓ cup peanut […]

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Pork Loin And Deadly Dancing

American Entree PORK LOIN WITH SHERRY AND RED ONIONS INGREDIENTS 4 garlic cloves 9 pearl onions 2 tablespoons fresh parsley or 2 teaspoons dried 2 red onions ¼ cup butter 2 pounds pork tenderloin 1 […]

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Tomato Bread and First World Vampiric Problems

Andorran Appetizer PA AMB TOMÀQUET (Tomato Bread) INGREDIENTS 4″ baguette or crusty Italian bread 4 garlic cloves 4 big, ripe tomatoes 8 teaspoons olive oil (1 teaspoon per slice) ¼ teaspoon pepper ¼ teaspoon salt […]

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How to Say All Over the World, “No lutefisk, please, it makes me ill. Where is the nearest taco truck?”

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  “No lutefisk, please, it makes me ill. Where is the nearest taco truck?” I used GoogleTM Translate to translate the above phrases into the following languages. You might never need to use these words […]

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Shrimp Soup and the Fate of the T-Rexes

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Chilean Soup SHRIMP SOUP (Chupe de Camarones) INGREDIENTS 6 slices white bread 1 12-ounce can evaporated milk 1 medium onion 1 small carrot 1 stalk celery 1 red bell pepper 2 cups water ½ cup […]

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Avocados With Tuna and New Kitchen Inventions

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Bissau Guinean AVOCADOS WITH TUNA (Abacate Com Atum) INGREDIENTS 2½ tablespoons freshly * grated coconut (9½ tablespoons more later) 2 large or 4 small ripe avocados 1 6-ounce can tuna 9½ tablespoons freshly grated coconut […]

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Tiramisu and Russia’s Cat Tsar

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Italian Dessert TIRAMISU INGREDIENTS 6 lady fingers 6 egg yolks ⅔ cup sugar ½ teaspoon rum extract or 2 tablespoons rum or Marsala wine 1 pound marscapone* ½ cup room-temperature espresso 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa […]

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Beef Noodle Soup and Susan’s Ladder to Mars

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Taiwanese Soup BEEF NOODLE SOUP INGREDIENTS 5 garlic cloves 1 inch ginger root 6 scallions (white part of green onions) 1 Roma tomato 2 Thai chiles or red chiles 8 cups water (or enough to […]

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Hitler Shops at the Supermarket

Shopping can be rough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-hdivo0lHk Paul De Lancey, culinary historian   Check out my latest novel, the hilarious apocalyptic thriller, Do Lutheran Hunks Eat Mushrooms? It’s published by HumorOutcasts and is available in paperback or Kindle on amazon.com  

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