Pastel de nata

23 March 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Bon appétit Reading Time:  5 minutes

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© flickr.com – Mon Œil/cc-by-2.0

Pastel de nata (plural: pastéis de nata) is a Portuguese egg custard tart pastry, optionally dusted with cinnamon. Outside Portugal, they are particularly popular in other parts of Western Europe, Asia and former Portuguese colonies, such as Brazil, Mozambique, Macau, Goa, Malacca and East Timor. The Macanese variant has been adopted by KFC and is available in regions such as mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore. In Indonesia, this pastry is especially popular in Kampung Tugu, Jakarta, a culturally Portuguese (Mardijker) enclave.   read more…

Calle Marqués de Larios in Málaga

17 March 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Bon appétit, Shopping Reading Time:  4 minutes

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© Olliebailie/cc-by-sa-4.0

Calle Marqués de Larios, also known simply as Calle Larios, is a pedestrian and shopping street in Málaga, Spain. The street was inaugurated on 27 August 1891. It is the most expensive street to live on in Málaga, and the eleventh most expensive to live on in all of Spain.   read more…

Scotch egg

16 March 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Bon appétit, London Reading Time:  4 minutes

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© flickr.com – Ewan Munro/cc-by-sa-2.0

A Scotch egg is a boiled egg wrapped in sausage meat, coated in breadcrumbs and baked or deep-fried.   read more…

Bavarian Weisswurst

9 March 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Bon appétit Reading Time:  7 minutes

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© Christof46/cc-by-sa-4.0

Weißwurst (literally ‘white sausage’; Bavarian: Weißwuascht) is a traditional Bavarian sausage made from minced veal and pork back fat. It is usually flavored with parsley, lemon, mace, onions, ginger and cardamom, although there are some variations. Then the mixture is stuffed into pork casings and separated into individual sausages measuring about 10 to 12 centimetres (3 7⁄8 – 4 3⁄4 inches) in length and 3–4 cm (1 1⁄8 – 1 5⁄8 in) in thickness.   read more…

Bliss point

7 March 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Bon appétit Reading Time:  5 minutes

Varieties of sugar at a public market, Nice, France © Subhashish Panigrahi/cc-by-sa-4.0

Varieties of sugar at a public market, Nice, France © Subhashish Panigrahi/cc-by-sa-4.0

The bliss point is the amount of an ingredient such as salt, sugar or fat which optimizes deliciousness (in the formulation of food products).   read more…

Halles de Lyon Paul Bocuse in Lyon

2 March 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Bon appétit, Shopping Reading Time:  8 minutes

© Benoît Prieur

© Benoît Prieur

Les Halles de Lyon Paul Bocuse or La Halle or sometimes the belly of Lyon are covered markets from 1971, in the 3rd arrondissement of Lyon, in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. This covered market of 13,500 m², with around sixty merchants and restaurants, is one of the emblematic high places of Lyonnais cuisine, dedicated to Lyonnais mothers, and to the famous emblematic Lyonnais chef 3 stars in the Michelin Guide Paul Bocuse (1926-2018).   read more…

Crown Liquor Saloon in Belfast

1 March 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Bon appétit, House of the Month Reading Time:  7 minutes

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© geograph.org.uk – Aubrey Dale/cc-by-sa-2.0

The Crown Liquor Saloon, also known as the Crown Bar, is a pub in Great Victoria Street in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Refurbished in 1885, and at least twice since, it is an outstanding example of a Victorian gin palace, and one of Northern Ireland’s best-known pubs. It is owned by the National Trust and is leased to Mitchells & Butlers who run it as a Nicholson’s pub.   read more…

Crab Cake

23 February 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Bon appétit Reading Time:  6 minutes

Crab cake © Sarah Stierch/cc-by-4.0

Crab cake © Sarah Stierch/cc-by-4.0

A crab cake is a variety of fishcake popular in the United States. It is composed of crab meat and various other ingredients, such as bread crumbs, mayonnaise, mustard (typically prepared mustard, but sometimes mustard powder), eggs, and seasonings. It is then sautéed, baked, grilled, deep fried, or broiled. Crab cakes are traditionally associated with the Chesapeake Bay, in the state of Maryland. Although the earliest use of the term “crab cake” is commonly believed to date to Crosby Gaige’s 1939 publication New York World’s Fair Cook Book in which they are described as “Baltimore crab cakes,” earlier usages can be found such as in Thomas J. Murrey’s book Cookery with a Chafing Dish published in 1891.   read more…

Bouillabaisse

16 February 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Bon appétit Reading Time:  9 minutes

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© flickr.com – cyclonebill/cc-by-sa-2.0

Bouillabaisse (Provençal: bolhabaissa) is a traditional Provençal fish soup originating in the port city of Marseille. The word is originally a compound of the two Provençal verbs bolhir (‘to boil‘) and abaissar (‘to reduce heat’, i.e. ‘simmer‘).   read more…

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