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Jul 23, 20225 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20213 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20195 min read
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, 20194 min read
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, 20193 min read
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, 20195 min read
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, 20195 min read
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, 20183 min read
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 18, 20185 min read
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, 20182 min read
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, 20183 min read
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, 20184 min read
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, 20181 min read
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, 20181 min read
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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