Category: The List

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Puerto Rican Sandwiches de Mezcla

The textural deficiencies that the spread has by itself are almost entirely masked by combining it with squishy white bread. You can almost fool yourself into thinking that it’s something better.

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‘Round the Corner, Marmalade

The final step includes adding sugar and bringing the marmalade to its setting point, somewhere just north of the boiling point of water. Of course where there is room for human error, I will find a way to make it.

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Marmalade: A life story.

Marmalade features in the popular children’s fiction that I grew up with. Australia in the 1970s was steeped in Britishness. Our membership of the crumbling empire was never in doubt in my childhood mind.

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Manhattan(s) in Indianapolis

Like other comfort foods, the Manhattan is fatty and carby, rich and warm and filling, and not especially challenging. It is the culinary equivalent of a warm blanket and a snuggly dog.

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Hungarian Lángos

The bread is just a little salty, the crisp-crusted but chewy outer edges giving way to a thin and cracklingly crunchy center topped with garlic and cheese.