How to continue a tradition: make vlaai with me
A typical start for vlaai baking: for weeks, I had planned to make you vlaai filled with rice pudding, as
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How to continue a tradition: the spirit of vlaai
Continuing a tradition is a process. The tradition continues from generation to generation, evolving organically with the changing environmental and
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How to continue a tradition: the identity of vlaai?
A tradition is not just the combination of what a people need and what they have. More than that, it
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How to continue a tradition: do you know vlaai?
Recently, conversations with friends who do not eat dairy confronted me with the following question: is vlaai (pronounce “vly” as
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I want: to write a cookbook.
“The essential thing is to want to sing.” These words from the opening of Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer brought
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Feeling down, dressing up
Recently I was talking to a friend. “You look beautiful!” I told her upon meeting. “Thank you,” she said. “As
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Thank God for the Turks
I’m spending a week in my friend’s house in my old hometown. I’m reconnecting with all the shops I used
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Losing your bread: one in a million recipes
I am always so happy for bread getting old. One day after, it is easier on my digestion. Two days
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A salad for the moment
A recipe for a salad, to start with: the recipe section of this website, and maybe your lunch too, or
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Moments of peace and having a little fun
Maybe it is my pre-carnival mood. The diamond grid. It reminds me of Italian commedia dell’arte. Carnival Venice style. Puppets,
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