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Revitalizing Ukrainian Cooking with Masterchef Evgeniy Klopotenko

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The most interesting experiences often arise from serendipity.  I recently shared a kitchen and an evening of Ukrainian cooking with 31-year-old Evgeniy (Zhenia) Klopotenko, winner of the 2015 Ukraine’s Masterchef contest, a graduate of Paris’s Le Cordon Bleu culinary school, a Ukrainian TV personality and producer of jams and marmalades. Young Zhenia is a trained …

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Morocco – A Travelers’ Sampler II — Food

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Food binds geographically and linguistically diverse Morocco together.  Moroccan cooking reflects the influence of indigenous peoples, traders, invaders, immigrants and colonizers, each of whom, over centuries, played a role in the development of local culture and dietary habits with new ingredients and cooking techniques that remain influential today.  Today’s Moroccan cuisine is a blend of Berber, …

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Rice Noodle Soup with Salmon, Snow peas and Shiitake Mushrooms – A Relative Phở

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This dish of Rice Noodle Soup with Salmon, Snow peas and Shiitake Mushrooms is my nontraditional adaptation of phở cá, a fish phở I enjoyed in Vietnam, a splendid comforting lunch or light dinner for the first chilly, rainy days of autumn. Phở, the national dish of Vietnam, is the street food of ordinary people, …

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Gazpacho

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When the dog days of summer bring temperatures in the high 90s and turn the air thick and sultry,  my enthusiasm for the kitchen diminishes: it’s too hot and sticky to cook a dinner, with or without  an outside grill. What is needed now is an easy to prepare meal that cools us down, and a visit …

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Asparagus Soup á la Cozinha Velha

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It’s asparagus season.  The appearance of bunches of vividly green or ghostly white asparagus at the local market is a harbinger of spring, calling for a seasonal celebration of this often unappreciated vegetable with special recipes for soups, omelets, soufflées, tarts and even asparagus desserts. And now is the time to savor the difference in …

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