Once and Always a Chef
Editor's Note: Chef Kandace Davis (above), the retired owner of Cha Cha Chow, an award-winning, innovative food truck in St. Louis,...
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- Sep 7, 2021
- 2 min
A cape is just an apron on backwards
COLUMBIA, Missouri-- I am game to believe a cape is just an apron worn backwards. I didn't laugh so much as nod when I read these words...
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- Jul 26, 2021
- 3 min
Soil and substance
By Nina Mukerjee Furstenau They say mushrooms capture the sun, but they also make what is tethered in the earth available to humans. To...
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- Jul 15, 2020
- 1 min
The Common Ingredient--LOVE
COLUMBIA, Missouri-- The website, www.thecommoningredient (psst: it's love!), was formed to help our neighbors with good food, comfort...
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- Mar 27, 2020
- 3 min
The Carolina Housewife in times of trouble
The mysterious Lady of Charleston who penned the Carolina Housewife cookbook in 1847, fell in with the idea that a lady's name
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- Mar 1, 2020
- 3 min
The language of coconut shrimp curry
By Nina Mukerjee Furstenau ORLANDO, Florida—We are eating a favorite lunch of rice with coconut shrimp curry when I ask my father about...
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- Feb 5, 2020
- 2 min
Midwest foods cure the blues
By Nina Mukerjee Furstenau FAYETTE, Missouri-- In not-so-breaking news from the Midwest: casseroles cure the blues. I see this happen in...
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- Aug 14, 2019
- 5 min
Yogurt: milk & mayhem
As Robin Sloan says in his delightful book, Sourdough, "I have come to believe that food is history of the deepest kind...
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- Jul 14, 2019
- 4 min
Routes and roots
By Nina Mukerjee Furstenau FAYETTE, Missouri--My route home twisted through clouds. It was easy to imagine this as something customary on...
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- Apr 28, 2019
- 3 min
What we bring to the table
By Nina Mukerjee Furstenau KOLKATA, India-- How long does it take for a food from another land to become your comfort food, your...
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- Feb 15, 2019
- 5 min
In hot water: tea in the mountains
By Nina Mukerjee Furstenau DARJEELING, India--In the land of noble Himalayan vistas, steep slopes, and delectable teas, indoor heat is...
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- Jan 11, 2019
- 5 min
An embarrassment of patishapta
By Nina Mukerjee Furstenau KOLKATA, India—On Sunday, I was making patishapta, an Indian crepe, not quite as I was taught. Okay, not at...
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- Dec 8, 2018
- 3 min
Chhana: milk's leap toward immortality
Nina Mukerjee Furstenau KOLKATA, India -- Clifton Fadiman famously said, "A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it...
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- Nov 19, 2018
- 5 min
Psst, may I speak confidentially?
KOLKATA, India-- I feel, as Lilian Boxfish did in the novel Lilian Boxfish Takes a Walk, that there’s a low-grade lunacy to life in a...
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- Oct 26, 2018
- 2 min
When a war lord craves melons...
KOLKATA, India--What would a war lord, like Barbur, do for the taste of melon? Apparently, the 16th century central Asian prince, Zahir...
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- Oct 7, 2018
- 3 min
Tracing clues on a trail of crumbs
KOLKATA, India—I’ve been reading a lot lately about what makes a food your own. At home in Missouri before leaving for Bengal to research...
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- Sep 26, 2018
- 4 min
Satisfying our hungers
Nina Mukerjee Furstenau FAYETTE, Missouri -- In August, clear-yellow cloudless sulfur butterflies coast past my kitchen window heading...
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- Sep 18, 2018
- 1 min
Giving a fig
My fig tree is nearly ready to give up its fruit. Every time I look at the green, slowly thickening bulbs, I know I have to be both...
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- Sep 16, 2018
- 1 min
Welcome to"A Likely Story"
I write food and heritage stories that connect experiencing locales, people, and flavor. Follow this blog for short snippets of wonder...
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