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Grow Saffron
Expensive to buy, saffron can be grown in your yard easily and inexpensively, making this popular and pricey spice a practical addition to your menu.
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How to Buy High-Quality Saffron
Saffron is coming to a store near you - and you'll be paying about $500 a pound for it. How can you tell if that particular saffron is worth it?
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Saffron Risotto alla Milanese Easy Recipe
Created for a wedding in the 16th century, Risotto allo Zafferano is possibly the best known recipe from the city of Milan and the Lombardy region in northern Italy
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Saffron: Gold in a Crocus Cup
The history, folklore, and uses of saffron
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Bible Spices Continued
This article discusses marjorom, mint, rue, mustard, and saffron and their use in Bible days.
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Herb Glossary: Saffron to Vanilla
These plants have a myriad of medicinal, culinary and decorative uses, several of which are detailed here.
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Pasta with Lamb and Saffron
Not just saffron and lamb, but also wild fennel, and Marsala wine, in this unusual pasta recipe from Spoleto in Umbria.
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Sub Rosa Saffron Vodka Recipes
Sub Rosa Saffron vodka has an intense scent and flavor that adds an exotic touch to any cocktail.
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The Saffron Revolution
Why are monks and nuns demonstrating in Burma? What do they want and is it justified?
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Dandelion Recipes
The vernal equinox is the perfect time to utilize spring's first flowers - the humble dandelion. Here are two recipes to indulge in this healthful and magickal herb.
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Fabulous fun gifts under $40.00
Savory holiday gifts. This installment of my gourmet gift guide covers gourmet treats all under $40.00. From saffron in hand-painted jar to Gourmet chips, we've got it.
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Seafood Paella, Angeles’s Recipe
Paella has become an international Spanish dish, but there are several ways this rice dish can be cooked. In fact, every location in Spain prepares it in a different way
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Sub Rosa Spirits
Craft beer is now well accepted, but craft distilling is still largely unexplored territory. Once stumbled upon, though, it's a territory well worth exploring.
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Basic Rice Pilaf for Camp
Since pilaf is more of a preparation method than an ethnic dish, it easily adapts to most rice dishes. With it you can travel from spicy red rice of Mexico to the pale yellow saffron rice of the Middle East.
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Dyeing: Safflower
Safflower has been used for centuries as a substitute for true saffron to dye food and cloth yellow. It also produces a nice madder red after the yellow tones have been extracted. GIve it a try!!
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Ramadan Holiday Recipe
My Aunt who learned it when she was in Morocco gave this buttery and aromatic Middle Eastern soup recipe to me, well not exactly this one. I have improved on the original recipe and ...
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Chicken Bastilla Recipe
Here's a step-by-step recipe for preparing Moroccan cuisine's highly acclaimed Chicken Bastilla. Crisp, paper-thin pastry encloses savory chicken cooked with saffron.
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Chicken Hymettus Recipe
This marinated Greek chicken dish oozes flavour with thyme, saffron, limes and honey making a tender and fragrant meal to make in advance.
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Paella with Chicken and Prawns
Another brilliant paella recipe from the kitchen of Moro Restaurant, London, it can be found in the second Casa Moro Cookbook - which oozes Mediterranean dishes.
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Pigments: Historical Warm Hues
Many gorgeous warm pigments such as dragonsblood and saffron and "minium" used in paintings before the mid-1800s are now rarely used due to toxicity or impermanence.
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Saltram's Cheese & Other Vegetarian Sandwiches
Most people think turkey or roast beef when they think 'sandwich.' So, many vegetarians forgo sandwiches. They don't have to, with these tasty, nutritious alternatives.
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Than Shwe
Who is the leader of the vicious Burmese military regime and how has he reached his position?
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The Bank Job Movie Review
What was the real story behind the 1971 Lloyds Bank robbery in London where thieves took millions from safe deposit boxes and got away with it?
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The Shwe Dagon Pagoda
The Shwe Dagon Pagoda is the central location for demonstrations by monks in Burma's Saffron Revolution. What is it and what is it for?
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Fall Blooming Crocus
For a touch of the unexpected, add some fall flowering crocus to your gardens this year. These little known treasures can add great interest and depth to your fall gardens!
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Egypt Nile Cruising Aswan
Part two of a series on Nile Cruising from Luxor to Aswan and returning to Explore Ancient Thebes.
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Gourmet Food Gifts Under $20.00
Gourmet Holiday gifts that delight don't need to be expensive! Here are some ideas for the foodies on your list - all come in around $20 US.
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One-pot Spanish Paella
The history of Paella and one of many recipe options - Rabbit and Artichoke Paella Recipe an earthy dish that would have been simple peasant fare, prepared in the fields.
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History of Quantity Cooking, Part 2:
Part 2 of the short series of "The History of Quantity Cooking" through the Early Empires to modern day. Research on cooking from the Medieval Days of feasts and how they were conducted.
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