Making Thailand’s “Chile Water”

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Making Thailand’s “Chile Water” Story and Photos by Austin Bush     Recipes  Nam Plaa Phrik  Nam Phrik Ong  Nam Phrink Kapi with Fresh and Fried Vegetables  Nam Phrik Num      A Variety of Nam Phriks and Other Ingredientsin the Market in Satun, Southern Thailand  The first Thai dish I ever learned to make is probably the simplest Thai …

The Russian Grill: Shashlyk

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By Sharon Hudgins The smoky smell of shashlyk makes every Russian’s mouth water.  Yours will, too, when you inhale the aroma of marinated meat cooking over an open fire.  An ancient dish, well known to nomads and herders across a wide swath of the Caucasus and Central Asia, shashlyk became popular in Russia in the mid-19th century after Georgia, Azerbaijan, …

Tantalizing Tamales

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Getting back to basics with the original snack food of the Americas By Gwyneth Doland Today, more than 500 years after European explorers first reached the New World, it is almost impossible to imagine that until the 16th century, the Swiss had no chocolate or vanilla in their pantries, the Italians had no tomatoes, the Irish no potatoes, the Chinese …

My First Habanero

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By Stu Burns; Photos by Norman Johnson   People often ask me how I reached the pinnacle of pepperdom and, after an indulgent chuckle, I take a sip from my perfectly pungent Bloody Maria and retell the oft-told tale of my passionate indulgence. I used to be a normal guy, owner of the Snoozing Pines Trailer Park and the kinda …

The Taming of the Wild Chile: Part 1, The Tolerated Weed

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  by Dave DeWitt and Nancy Gerlach        Recipes:         Corn and Potatoes with Two Chiles       Papas con Tomates       Squash Soup with Chile Sauce     “The fruit [of the Peruvian Uchu chile] is as indispensable to the natives as salt to the whites.” ‑‑Friedrich Alexander von Humboldt, 1814 For more than 10,000 years, mankind has been …