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Oct 4, 2011, 12:15 pm
When talking about Greek sweet dishes from the beginning of recorded history through about 1800, the subject can be summed up in three words: "nuts and honey."
Until a couple of centuries ago, wheat and other high-protein grains were scarce enough to be reserved almost exclusively for bread, and ... Comment - Like
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Sep 19, 2011, 8:39 am
"O'zapft!" -- "It's tapped!" That's what they were shouting a few mornings ago in the Theresienwiese -- "Queen Therese's Meadow" -- when the ceremonial first barrel of beer was tapped by the Mayor of the City of Munich, officially opening the 178th Oktoberfest.
In the next few weeks, an estimated ... Comment - Like
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Aug 29, 2011, 6:39 am
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Aug 29, 2011, 5:35 am
This soup used to be served to hungry partiers halfway through the all-night balls held in Germany, Austria and Switzerland around the New Year's holiday...
The basic requirements for the soup at that point were that it be a good restorative: something with a major hit of protein and carbs to kic... Comment - Like
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Aug 18, 2011, 7:20 am
If you have a chance to travel much in central Europe, especially by train, you start seeing a lot of fascinating food-related things that the glossy travel shows about seeing landmarks at high speed will never have time to show you....
During the first few years that EuroCuisineLady and EuroCuisi... Comment - Like
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Aug 18, 2011, 3:57 am
This dish is one of the great favorites of Irish people at home, to judge by its presence in almost every deli, convenience store and supermarket you walk into (in the latter case, in both fresh and frozen-food case versions). It also turns up on practically every pub menu in the country...
usually... Comment - Like
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Aug 17, 2011, 10:01 am
Desserts containing Guinness are always a little bit of a tricky thing. You have to be careful to balance the basic dark bitterness of the Guinness with the dessert's other ingredients... and with even the best of intentions, this doesn't always work.
But this recipe is one of the exceptions to the... Comment - Like
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Aug 15, 2011, 8:28 pm
Once upon a time, a couple of hundred years ago, macaroni was a big deal. A popular song recalls how a young dandy called Yankee Doodle "stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni" -- meaning he was trying to position himself upmarket, on the cutting edge of the newest, hottest fashion trends... Comment - Like
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Aug 15, 2011, 8:27 pm
Countries with cultures more than a couple of thousands of years old typically get very enthusiastic about their breads, and with reason: for them, bread was truly the staff of life in a world where the food supply could often be precarious.
But their breads also speak specifically to how life has... Comment - Like
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Aug 15, 2011, 7:44 pm
When thinking of Austria and baked goods in general, there's a tendency for the mind to jump to the image of involved cakes piled up in many layers...
...or else rich pastries stuffed with whipped cream or glossy with chocolate icing or fruit glazes, all sourced from fancy city bakeries. But the Au... Comment - Like
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Aug 15, 2011, 8:54 am
This essentially English comfort food has been around for at least a few hundred years, though the actual timing is a little uncertain...
Over that time, the crumpet has gathered to itself a whole spectrum of meanings and associations in British culture: coziness, warmth, home and hearthside, the ... Comment - Like
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Sep 3, 2010, 8:24 am
A loaf of buttermilk-free soda bread
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If you have a problem with buttermilk, then traditional Irish soda bread might at first glance seem to be something you can't make. Fortunately, this isn't the case, and we've got solutions for your p... Comment - Like
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Aug 25, 2010, 7:34 am
It can come as a surprise for a North American traveling in the UK to discover that hardly anyone there has heard of "English muffins," or knows what they are. And the situation was the same in Ireland for a long time. Only very recently have the major UK and Irish supermarket chains introduced some... Comment - Like
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Mar 17, 2010, 9:13 am
This countryside dish would have been the perfect treatment for that farmhouse standby, the years-old laying hen whose egg-laying days have sadly come to an end. These days, when not so many of us have chickens in the back yard, the supermarket broiler or fryer will do just as well...
and the thrif... Comment - Like
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Mar 16, 2010, 12:45 pm
The Irish attitude to fish has been ambivalent for a long time.
Probably this has to do with it having been mandatory once a week for most of the country for so long. It's a peculiar state of affairs when the very best Irish fish isn't to be found in markets at home, but instead winds up being sold... Comment - Like
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Mar 14, 2010, 8:36 pm
Many people come to our site each day (especially as we get closer to St. Patrick's Day) looking for traditional Irish dessert recipes, especially ones that contain Baileys Irish Cream.*
As far as "traditional" goes, this is always going to be a sticky subject... especially in Ireland, where the la... Comment - Like
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Mar 13, 2010, 3:00 pm
Of all the Irish traditional main dishes, lamb stew is possibly one of the ones most constantly made... and possibly also one of the most contentious. (Please note that not many people here call it Irish stew: it seems a little redundant, since this is not only where it comes from, but where it's be... Comment - Like
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Mar 6, 2010, 3:31 pm
When you're making an Irish breakfast or an Ulster Fry, there are some side dishes that are absolutely indispensable... but (when you're not in Ireland, and sometimes even when you are) often very hard to get your hands on. The one that's probably most difficult to find is potato bread, or arán pra... Comment - Like
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Mar 6, 2010, 6:47 am
You could make a case that of all the desserts a modern cook might think of off hand, the cheesecake is the most traditionally Irish. Desserts based on sweetened curds (called milseán) were mentioned in the epic poetry of Ireland as far back as 800 AD, as were numerous cream cheeses. (The milseán ... Comment - Like
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Feb 15, 2010, 6:41 am
Odds are strong that on the morning of March 8th, all over Britain and Ireland many cooks are likely to wake up with the bizarre thought, "Oh no, I forgot to buy lemons!" This is because that day is Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday -- a day also known in Britain and Ireland as Pancake... Comment - Like
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Jan 21, 2010, 5:39 am
This popular bread, also known in some regions as somun, is eaten all up and down the eastern side of the Mediterranean (and a long way inland) and is by far the favorite accompaniment for savory meat snacks like cevapcici. The main name for this vaguely pita-like flatbread has many spellings, so w... Comment - Like
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Dec 25, 2009, 8:02 am
There's a tendency to think of the turkey as more or less everybody's choice for Christmas dinner -- especially considering how easy it is to get them in Europe these days. But it's not so long ago that turkeys would have been seen here not just as an expensive luxury, but disease-prone, delicate,... Comment - Like
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Nov 26, 2009, 2:07 pm
Finding pumpkin for that vital pumpkin pie can be tough when you live in Europe.
It's not that pumpkin doesn't grow here (some of the best breeds are grown in France and make their way all over the continent). But there doesn't seem to be much of an urge to can it: and by the time the expat North A... Comment - Like
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