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I Survived a Peanut Butter Pickle Sandwich
My first peanut butter pickle sandwich, 10/5/2011Living in a new country means constant learning. Food is no exception. When you get used to, and even begin enjoying, a new dish or an ingredient, the...
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Slovak Cooking Delivers Delicious Morsels of Home
Tvarohové rezy by Ľuboš Brieda of SlovakCooking.com If you were to ask Ľuboš Brieda, “What’s cookin’?”, he’d most likely tell you the name of a Slovak dish you’ve never heard of. Which is precisely...
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We Hold Our Food Truths to Be Self-Evident
This is a reprint, with permission, of “Food Truths: Taquerias and Cherry Pie”, an essay my wife Lindsay Sauvé wrote and published on her blog Blue Palate on September 24. Everyone has their food...
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Happy Marinated Thanksgiving!
Marinated Camembert This is my first Thanksgiving as an American citizen and the first to which I’m contributing a dish. I planned to make a Slovak desert, using a recipe from SlovakCooking.com, but...
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The Soup That Is Christmas
Kapustnica, courtesy of Dobre Jedlo (Good Food) magazine The American Christmas table is different from the Slovak one: no fish, no potato salad, no bobaľky, but, most importantly, no kapustnica. Early...
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In the diaries and letters they left behind, immigrants made it clear that next to their families and their family homes, they longed most for their native foods. — Susan Matt writing about 1870-1920...
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From Food Cart to Restaurant for Three Weeks: Tábor Authentic Czech Eatery
Two days remain to experience Czech cuisine at a brick-and-mortar restaurant here in Portland, Oregon. For three weeks until June 24, Karel and Monika from the Tábor Authentic Czech Eatery food cart...
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Heaven at home: Finding the best Oregon pilsner
This report is cross-posted on the Where Is Your Toothbrush? blog. * * * When I moved to the U.S. in 2003 I was skeptical about microbrews. Having been raised on Czech/Slovak lagers of the pilsner...
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