June 3, 2011
I’d heard of lotus seed before, but the only way I’d ever encountered it was in it’s candied form at Vietnamese New Year, and as lotus seed paste in candies. I’d never worked with the raw material. The lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, is a fresh-water plant found in semi-tropical areas. The iconography of the lotus is [...]
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June 1, 2011
This is another instance where the translation of ingredients has been misleading. It turns out that when these recipes refer to ‘sweet’ and ‘bitter’ almonds they do not mean the kind of almond we normally think of in the west. Rather ‘almond’ refers to the seed or kernel found inside an apricot. There are two [...]
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