Before mango season is over I wanted to bring you this recipe. Every Dominican has an opinion on which is the best mango cultivar: banilejos, puyitas, injertos, etc. Truth is if you have never tried a ripe mango in our country you have missed much in your life. I find mangoes imported into non-mango growing
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Immigrants from the Middle Eastern region, mainly from Syria, Palestine, Lebanon and Egypt came to the Dominican Republic and other Latin American countries in the late 19th and early 20th century. At the time, most of the Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe were under Turkish rule as part of the Ottoman Empire until
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There is a question I have been asked many times in these ten years: What makes a dish “Dominican”? The answer escapes me. And since Aunt Ilana is the anthropologist here I have put off coming up with my own definition. The fact is that I doubt there will ever be a consensus on the
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It happened in the summer of 1993. It wasn’t a difficult decision. It was always uncomfortable around the table in the company’s cafeteria. I had already developed a reputation for being picky, people had suspicions. The real challenge came when we were sitting for our Christmas dinner, as my mom cut me a piece of
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We’ve all heard about the Mediterranean diet, held up as one of the healthiest eating regimes the world has known. Just as beneficial but not so well known is – you guessed it – the Dominican diet. Or did you? At first glance Dominican eating does not hit you in the face as the healthiest
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Practically every country on earth has a version of potato salad, but did you know where “our” Russian salad originated? I bet you won’t guess in a million years. Well, what do you know. It did come from Russia, of all places! The original “Russian salad” was created by the chef Laurence Olivier who worked
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When you are a kid you tend to believe everything you read. When I was a little kid I thought that all English ladies went picnicking once or twice a week and that they all wore long flowery dresses and big floppy hats or fascinators, sat on red and white-checkered tablecloths and sipped tea under
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Since the dawn of time us humans have had to go out in search for food: to hunt it, forage for it, or grow it. These days a visit to the supermarket is the modern equivalent. Armed with plastic and brandishing trolleys we roam stealthily down the aisles… but that’s another story. In the Dominican
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A few weeks ago we had a poll to determine how good our readers were in the kitchen. From this we learnt that 44% of our visitors were good cooks, 33% were ok cooks and 21% were a hazard in the kitchen. If I am surprised by the result it is because there weren’t more
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I was astonished when I learnt that in the US there was a new product being marketed, something that sounds like having come out of Dr. Frankenstein’s kitchen: The Lipton Instant Mashed Potatoes with Knorr Beef Gravy Mix Kit®. My goodness! We have gone from fast food to instant meal. What’s next? Do not mistake me,
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Aunt Clara's Kitchen is a collection of traditional Dominican recipes, recipes inspired by Dominican flavors, as well as the chronicles of the Aunties' adventures in the kitchen and outside.
