World Cup of Food

Morocco is famous in Western culture for a lot of things: the film Casblanca, the fez hat, the once-seedy underbelly of Tangier (and its citrus fruit the tangerine), and the High Atlas Mountains.  ...

Preserved lemons (recipe follows) are an essential ingredient of Moroccan cookery.  Packed in salt and pickled in the brine made from their own juices, the pith of the lemons lose their bitterness ...

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Swedish food, and Scandinavian food in general, puts fish and potatoes ahead of just about everything else.  Ukrainian food is all about the root vegetables, with an ample dose of pork and beef for...

Thanks to the twentieth century's political upheaval of Eastern Europe, the rise of Communism and the Soviet influence, and the subsequent independence of the former Eastern Bloc nations, there has...

The idea of soup for dessert might seem strange, but for Swedes it's simply a part of their food culture.  Nyponsoppa, rose hip soup (recipe follows) utilizes an abundant, vitamin-rich food resourc...

What constitutes an irresistible temptation depends a lot on how a potentially tempted person was raised.  A person that grew up on an American diet would likely not be moved by Jansson's frestelse...

For your Sunday reading pleasure, a dish so Swedish that if we were traveling in Stockholm and saw this casserole walking down the street we would stop it and ask if we could get a picture taken with it.

Argentine and Canadian lands span nearly from the North Pole to the South Pole, and as one might expect from regions so geographically separated, their food traditions differ considerably.  Since T...