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I’ve been putting off writing about the “toad skin” melon since we got back from Brazil a few weeks ago as I’ve been trying to figure out what we’d call it in the U.S. No such luck. According to the Cambridge history of the world of food, there are hundreds and hundreds of [...]
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I can’t believe that we’re coming up on almost a year of weirdcombinations postings, that I love Mediterranean style food and have yet to write about hummus. That’s truly weird!
I make hummus all the time including with many variations. Usually I’ll fry the garlic in a bit of olive oil to reduce the heat (and [...]
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I love roadside snacks almost anywhere. In the American Southwest I chomp on Cornuts. In Virginia or at the movies, nothing is better than cherry Twizzlers. When I took a three week tour of China about fifteen years ago, the other members of our little tour group started calling me “snack man” [...]
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We’ve been great fans of white Domaine de la Becassonne from the southern Rhône for ages. We first came across the wine more than two years ago when the 2006 vintage was on the market. We hardly ever drink white but enjoyed this one so much that we ordered a case. The [...]
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I got this recipe from French Women for All Seasons and have only been waiting for fiddleheads to appear in the market to make it. We were in luck last Saturday while revisiting the Ferry Plaza Farmer’s Market. There was a huge pile of fiddleheads at the charming mushroom shop inside the ferry [...]
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I love unusual fruit. Atemóia has to be one of the strangest. It looks like a greenish pinecone or perhaps similar to Deep Roy’s character’s profile in the 2009 Star Trek movie. Sort of bumpy and ridged and not at all inviting. That’s got to be part of its charm.
Wikipedia says [...]
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I’ve finished Jack Chalker’s five volume “Soul Rider” series and since, I’ve been obsessing more and more about issues of sex, gender and sexuality raised by the work.
So here we are on this amazing place called World. There are areas that are more or less like our planet where the “conventional” physical laws work: [...]
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We at weirdcombinations love wine. That’s it: we just love it.
So it was marvelous to be at a swanky party in Vitória, ES, Brazil a couple of weeks ago in the height of the tropical summer sipping cabernet from gorgeous stemware talking about whether or not chardonnay would be a good wine to [...]
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Hegui has warm memories of this seaside restaurant situated in the resort town, Ubatuba, along the northern coast of São Paulo state, from numerous delightful previous visits. I’m glad that I’ve gotten to know it, too, as the food, ambiance and service are all wonderful. For you handful of weirdcombinations readers located in [...]
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One of the things that I most enjoy while visiting Brazil is sampling tropical fruit. Naturally, they’ve got a huge variety to choose from and unlike here, it’s usually at its freshest, ripest and tastiest. I’m a huge fan of papaya, guava, starfruit and even cashew fruit. If I weren’t allergic, I’m [...]
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