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By Lesley Thayer
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Food Cooking salsa macha evokes a less surreal time
While it’s hard to get a bad meal anywhere in Mexico City, my favorite places to eat when I visit are the outdoor markets. The food is like something from a Hemingway novel – simple, honest, and good. Customers cram themselves around long tables on small plastic chairs, sharing bowls of salsa – a memory…
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Food Make Persian kuku sabzi for #QuarantineCooking
A couple of years ago, my friends and I showed up for a weekend-long campout near Santa Cruz, Calif. and quickly realized none of us had brought any food. Genius. Soon we found ourselves staring into the deli case of a Persian restaurant and grocer called Rose Market. That’s when I saw something I had…
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