Anar, my love.

There is a story behind why the name of my favorite fruit rolls off my tongue in neither English nor Spanish.

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Table for one: pandemic cooking

That’s it. I’m tired. It has been nine months cooking for myself. The summer is now here in Rio de Janeiro and it is hot. I don’t want to cook anymore.

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Old school

I don’t have a television might seem like the vainglorious boast of a pedantic bookworm. It might have been twenty years ago. Today, however, this detail about the choices I’ve made does not say very much, considering all the time I spend on the internet. Apparently, television has gotten better since I was a kid watching […]

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Ayurveda in quaratine

At home and preparing my meals every single day, I cannot help but to reflect upon the fact that quarantine is a privilege.

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Mexican rajma chawal

I mean, I assume you’ve already gotten rid of all the other aluminium in the kitchen, right? Right??

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How to kill Dracula

Garlic at your own risk It has enough garlic to kill Dracula. There should be no reason that pasta aglio e olio couldn’t kill a sinusitis, right? That’s why it was part of my battle plan for the day after I arrived back home, a trip that required two excruciating intercontinental flights. Besides, why else […]

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Cooking Mexican in India

The games continued, unfolding the birth of a new cuisine, in much the same way our ancestors had done on different continents.

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Back in the kitchen after a long journey

I don’t have enough words of praise and awe for the delicious food of India, but after nearly five weeks in the Subcontinent, there was something to rediscover once back in my kitchen on the other side of the world. Returning to make those personal comfort foods, I realized which foods would be requested before […]

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Precisamos falar sobre UMAMI / We need to talk about UMAMI

Já vi várias tentativas de vegetarianismo serem frustradas por diversos motivos, mas principalmente pela descoberta de que não basta deixar de comer certas coisas: é necessário começar a comer outros alimentos.
I have seen several attempts at vegetarianism frustrated for various reasons, not the least of which is the discovery that it is not just a matter of ceasing to eat certain things: it is the start of eating other things

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