Yes, you read that correctly: it is ‘chaat’, not ‘chat’. But if you prepare one of these Indian delicacies the right way, your guests will definitely have something worth talking about.
As you would expect in a land that holds dozens of sub-cultures, India has developed as many chaats as they have languages. By some counts [...]
There is really no definitive answer as to how rice arrived in Italy. However, as soon as it made its way to Italy in the fourteenth century, most likely from Spain, it became a hit in Italian food. Areas of the country outside of Milan have the perfect blend of flat land, water, [...]
What Indian cuisine dish is complete without some chutney? Not many. This delicious fruit-based spread is more than mere jam – it is a jamboree of healthy flavor.
Chutney is made from fruit, vinegar, sugar and spices. But that simple description masks a continent of variety.
Chutney can be made with mangos, plums, peaches, tamarind… even cranberries [...]
Think of Mexican food and soup is not the first thing that comes to mind. But considering how many delicious Mexican soup recipes there are, it could never be last on the list. Here’s a small sampling of some of those delightful concoctions.
- Fabada Asturiana
Fabada is a soup imported to Mexico centuries ago by the [...]
Basic grill types range from charcoal to propane to natural gas, and sometimes even electric. The add-on features available with one model may help tip you toward one over the other.
Some propane grill models, for example, offer a side burner. That burner, typically about the size of an ordinary gas stove burner in your kitchen, [...]
Where you place the origins of pasta depends a great deal on how you define it. There is evidence that the ancient Etruscans prepared a wheat and egg paste, but it was baked not boiled. Does that count? There are artifacts from a period 3,000 years ago that look remarkably like pasta dies and extruders. [...]
Imagine Italian food and most people will picture pasta or pizza, spaghetti or sausages. But like most ancient lands, Italy has a diverse cuisine. The regional variations show up nowhere so sharply as the divide between Northern and Southern cuisine. There is overlap, to be sure. But travel north toward the Alps or to the [...]
