Central Market Atarazanas in Malaga

27 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Bon voyage, Bon appétit Reading Time:  6 minutes

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The Atarazanas Central Market is a municipal market in the Spanish city of Málaga, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. The current building, the work of architect Joaquín de Rucoba, was built between 1876 and 1879 on the site of a Nasrid naval workshop. Only a marble door remains, hence its name: atarazana.   read more…

Madeleines

20 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Bon appétit Reading Time:  3 minutes

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Madeleine ingredients © MairieSY/cc-by-sa-3.0

The madeleine or petite madeleine is a traditional small cake from Commercy and Liverdun, two communes of the Lorraine region in northeastern France.   read more…

Mett bread roll

13 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Bon appétit Reading Time:  6 minutes

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Mett, also known as Hackepeter (Northern Germany, Eastern Germany and Berlin), is a preparation of minced raw pork seasoned with salt and black pepper that is popular in Germany. It is frequently spread on halves of a bread roll, with raw onion optionally on top. Since the 1950s mett has also been offered as a buffet dish decoratively formed into the shape of a hedgehog, with raw onion “spines”. German law forbids mett being sold with a fat content exceeding 35%.   read more…

Rødgrød, red berry fruit compote

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

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Rødgrød (Danish), rote Grütze (German), or rode Grütt (Low German), meaning “red groats“, is a sweet fruit dish from Denmark and Northern Germany. The name of the dish in Danish features many of the elements that make Danish pronunciation difficult for non-native speakers, so rødgrød med fløde, literally “red porridge with cream”, has been a commonly used shibboleth since the early 1900s.   read more…

Wiener schnitzel

30 March 2025 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Bon appétit Reading Time:  6 minutes

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Wiener schnitzel (‘Viennese cutlet’), sometimes spelled Wienerschnitzel, is a type of schnitzel made of a thin, breaded, pan-fried veal cutlet. It is one of the best known specialities of Viennese cuisine, and one of the national dishes of Austria.   read more…

Pastel de nata

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

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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…

Scotch egg

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

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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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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…

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