Food family tree?

Pam Hoffman ha detto...

That Is Fascinating!

You know Mary, so many dishes are like that. Flan - the custard with carmelized sugar - also know in many parts of the world.

It makes me wonder how they get around. Did some things all come from one place and when people migrated, they took it with them?

It would be interesting to see a 'food tree' - I saw something like I'm thinking for languages. Yes, they called it a language tree and most everything comes from something they called Indo-European.

There is one offshoot - it goes to the Russian type cyrilic (sp?).

Do you have any idea if there is such a thing for food?

I'd be interested in seeing that!

Pam Hoffman
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Hello Pam.

As I have a husband who's a sort of language buff, I can tell you that my impression is that the parallel is correct up to a certain point.

With languages, you might be tempted to think they all go back to the same root (Indo-European) only if you think in terms of modern European languages, and this - in turn - with exceptions (Finnish, Hungarian). African, Asian, native American languages all come from a different stock, so that the use of a single tree to trace a common origin may not be the right one.

With food, I would think more in terms of multiple original appearances on the one hand, and migration on the other.

With polenta, for example, we are dealing with a type of food that has been a staple for entire population in different parts of the world for millennia, so that it's not too far-fetched to think that the preparation of such food could have become widespread in different regions at roughly the same time in history.

With other, more recent (and, possibly, more elaborate) dishes, the reason for their ubiquity under different names may certainly be related more to 'migration' and the increasing movement that populations underwent later on in history.

Polenta or Ugali what's in a name?

If you are in Italy they will call it polenta, common during winter season. If you are in Italy ask for polenta try with Asiago cheese or just beef and mushroom whichever way you have it you are going to love it.
If you go to Kenya they will call it Ugali, everyday dish its served with kale called sukuma wiki, so if you are in Kenya don't miss out on this. Ugali is poor mans cake.

If you happened to be in Romania, then just ask for "Mamaliga cu Tokitura moldoveasca"

Let's make this dish a world dish!

Egyptian favourites

For the next few days Im going to post some very nice pictures regarding food during my trip to Egypt 3 months ago.
This was during our visit to the pyramids we stopped to have lunch and I was able to see how they made bread. I bought myself a very nice Egyptian cook book so it is a matter of few weeks before we can try out some of my favourites from there.

Fish or Mango?

You find a variety of Italian fish recipes in every region in Italy. But this blog every now and then will try to prepare some fish in the Italian way for you to try.

The picture you see in this post, is just fish cooked in the oven with various Italian herbs. And then I cannot do without oven potatoes at least once a week.

Enjoy!

Weekend VIP treats

Weekend is here. This is the time when most families that are working during the week atleast find time to make some good home made food. Most Italian restaurants make this dish and also find it is very widely cooked by families.

My idea this weekend is Potatoes and chicken baked in the oven.

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Potatoes, chicken thighs, Rosemary if fresh the better, Sage, garlic and onion too will give them an extra great flavour. These are the main ingredients but sometimes I want to make them more balanced so I add carrots and Zucchini.

Preparations:
Brown the chicken thighs a little on a Pan with butter, put peeled potatoes and other vegetables in the oven pan and add salt, rosemary, sage, chicken, onion and garlic. Using hands mix with a generous amount of olive oil. Then bake in the oven.

Enjoy your meal and you can have some salad as a side dish.
Im sure your whole family will enjoy it!
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ingredients:
250g of Mascarpone cheese
3 eggs
finger biscuits
3 teaspoons of sugar
cofee
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I then dip the biscuits into coffee and arrange them in the container, alternating a layer of biscuits with that of cream. I continue like this until I have used all cream. Then with the help of a sieve I put a small quantity of cocoa powder on top.
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