Fish in the style of Veracruz Mexico is a classic treatment that at first blush looks like a strange cocktail of ingredients. Tomatoes with cinnamon and cloves? Olives and capers? Pickled jalapeno juice? There is definitely a Spanish influence here and an almost Renaissance approach to flavors. Yet somehow it all works, producing in the […]
It’s a little known fact that people all over the Caribbean love salt cod. And why would that be? In the not too distant past, the waters of the North Atlantic were swarming with cod. Going back centuries, when the fish were first discovered off Canada, fisherman from Europe and especially the Portuguese would make […]
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The movie “My Cousin Vinny” gave us a classic laugh line when actor Joe Pesci, playing a New Jersey lawyer confronting breakfast in the Deep South, asks: “What’s a grit?” There’s still some confusion over whether “grits” should be treated in the singular or the plural. But there’s no mistaking where grits come from. They […]
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