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A Year in Chicken Soup A new series by Hattie Garlick JEWISH PENICILLIN
A friend’s grandmother, a holocaust survivor, recently turned ninety-five. Surveying her life, she gave the following advice to young women: “be happy every day, eat, wear a scarf and don’t marry a schmendrick.” It seemed like a good idea to heed her tip-off, and make Jewish chicken soup the second ‘chicken soup from around the globe’ to be cooked in our Comfort Food Cafe. ... (read on)
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| A Year in Chicken Soup - Da's Cambodian Chicken Soup |
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A new series by Hattie Garlick DA'S CAMBODIAN CHICKEN SOUP
As Cambodians wake and shake their dreams from their slumbering limbs, they face a real working day that is likely to revolve around rice. According to a recent report by the New York Times, 80 per cent of the population work on the paddies. Which explains why Da, a Cambodian now transplanted to the urban fringes of London, says that Chicken Rice Soup — or borbo sach moan — runs in her veins. … (read on)
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| A Year in Chicken Soup |
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2015 A Year in Chicken Soup A new series by Hattie Garlick
I am deep within the annual existential crisis otherwise know as The January Spring Clean. Literally so: I’m up to my knees in books, flung from their roosts on the book shelves in a desperate attempt to Get Rid Of This Infernal Clutter. I lift one at random and blow a film of dust from its decorative cover... (read on) |
| A Year in Chicken Soup - Ghanaian Nkatenkwan |
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A Year in Chicken Soup
GHANAIAN NKATENKWAN
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| A Year in Chicken Soup - Avgolemono |
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A Year in Chicken Soup A new series by Hattie Garlick
The first lesson of chicken soup club is this: you do not choose your chicken soup, your chicken soup chooses you. As soon as I announce my plans to cook a different incarnation of the classic comfort food every month for a year, the Chicken Soup Conflict erupts. “My grandmother's Jewish penicillin is THE best!!!” emails a vague acquaintance. “Mexican chicken soup! Which other country actively encourages you to take both chocolate and tequila with your cure?” texts a friend. (read on)
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| A Year in Chicken Soup - Mexican Pozole |
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Hattie Garlick
A Year in Chicken Soup MEXICAN POZOLE with La Jacana I’ve had to source some difficult ingredients for previous chicken soups – a kosher boiler chicken, memorably, and pepper from a particular province of Cambodia. This has to rank as the trickiest, though. For Mexico’s contribution to The Year in Chicken Soup I had to find a baby of less than 40 days old. .... (read on)
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| A Year in Chicken Soup - Hassan's Shakriya |
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A Year in Chicken Soup
A series by Hattie Garlick HASSAN'S SHAKRIYA
Have you read Only in London, by Hanan Al Shaykh? There’s a passage in it that describes one of the main characters, freshly arrived in the UK, making a to-do list. ‘This is going to become my country’ she writes, ‘I’ve stopped living a temporary life’. And so, she must learn to speak English properly, look for a job and.... read on
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| A Year in Chicken Soup - Bengali Chicken Curry |
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A Year in Chicken Soup A series by Hattie Garlick JAHEEDA'S MUM'S BENGALI CHICKEN CURRY
Eid Mubarak! As I type, the smell of toasted spices and marinated meat sinews through the window, open to the cold air just a fraction of a gap. Below, small groups gather excitedly on doorsteps before disappearing within, behind warm lit windows that glow enticingly in the darkness. (read on)
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| A Year in Chicken Soup - Cock-a-leekie |
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A Year in Chicken Soup
COCK-A-LEEKIE
Join Hattie Garlick for the final instalment of A Year in Chicken Soup. After twelve months of culinary globetrotting via soups from Cambodia to Syria, Mexico to Nigeria, she returns to these shores for a final get-together with friends old and new round a soothing bowl of cock-a-leekie.
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