But For the Sky

Category: Yum

  • Yum: South Indian Cooking Class

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    We found ourselves in Delhi with a couple days to kill and not much of a desire to sight-see, so we signed up for a South Indian cooking class.  The class was taught in the home of our teacher Jyoti, a fast-talking and down-to-business expert chef. First, we learned about the main spices and ingredients used…

  • Yum: A Taste of Tibetan and Sikkimese Food

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    One of my favorite things about Darjeeling and Sikkim was — surprise, surprise– the food. We found the variety of Tibetan noodle soups to be delicious, healthy, and so comforting in the cold evenings. There are three main types of noodle soups: thenthuk (flat noodles), gyathuk (thin noodles), and bakthuk (gnocchi-type pasta) . A large bowl of…

  • Yum: Where the Chapatti At?

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    Let’s not sugar coat this: generally speaking, Africa is not exactly full of culinary delights. We ate chicken and chips for dinner more times than I care to remember, and for about two weeks our diet consisted almost exclusively of corn, bananas, peanut butter, and crackers– that’s all we could find. So when you find…

  • Yum: Forodhani Gardens

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    Forodhani Gardens is a park on the northern side of Stone Town which nightly hosts a gathering of a few dozen vendors selling various street foods. It is a scene not to be missed, and starts coming together when vendors set up around sundown. Most of them fall into one of three categories: Seafood: A…

  • Yum: Coca Cola’s East African Concoctions

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    It’s simple: Tanzania won the soda lottery. I don’t know what we Americans did to piss off the Coca-Cola company, causing them to deprive the U.S. of the incredibly tasty Krest Bitter Lemon and Stoney Tangawizi, but trust me, we’re missing out! Bitter Lemon is refreshing, crisp, and tastes like a strong lemonade but without…

  • Yum: Nali Hot Sauce

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    Claudia
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    Unfortunately, we were not in Malawi long enough to get a good taste for what the country’s cuisine is all about (unless it really is just chicken and chips, in which case we had more than enough time to get a taste for it…), but one thing we loved about every meal in Malawi was…

  • Yum: Mozambique’s Seafood

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    Our time in Moz was almost entirely spent on its coast, so almost everything we ate was seafood with either chips (french fries) or rice, with piri-piri sauce on the side. The most popular dishes were camarões (shrimp), lagosta (lobster), lagostina (something between a lobster a crayfish), and of course, fresh fish of the day.…

  • Yum: Amarula

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    Within a few minutes of leaving the Kruger, we spotted a sign telling us that The Birthplace of Amarula was only a mere 13 km away. For those of you who are not familiar with Amarula, it is the second most popular cream liquor in the world (Bailey’s is obviously first, and frankly I can’t…

  • Yum: Yerba Mate

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    Whereas coffee is the daily morning beverage for most of the world, in Argentina it’s yerba mate, except change “morning” to “all the time”, and “beverage” to “religion”. It’s an herbal tea (or infusion for our nonexistent British readers out there) with its own unique and traditional delivery method containing two parts: a hollowed out…

  • Yum: Choripan

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    We came across El Rey del Chori (‘The King of Chori’) while wandering around the San Telmo Sunday market. On offer were three meat sandwiches, the most popular being choripan (chorizo +), with your choice of toppings: onion and tomato relish, hot pickled peppers, and a hot pepper salsa. On a sunny day, with live music on…