After a long time, let’s talk about the cuisine again.For example, about Hokkaido pumpkin soup.Hokkaido pumpkin also “Hokkaido” (Japanese: “Uchiki kuri” katakana: ウチキクリ), (scientific name Cucurbita maxima var. maxima Red Kuri) descriptive: “Japanese pumpkin”, is a cultivated subspecies of giant pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima) belonging to the family pumpkin.Hokkaido pumpkins can be eaten raw, cooked in…
Tag: food
Meat Grinder
Let’s talk about mincing meat today.I have an old meat grinder in my small collection. Standardwerk #10, Americ. System. Made in Austria, sometime in the twenties of the twentieth century. It has always been in our family. My mother got it from her mother, and now I own it. Immediately after WWII, when there was…
Kaiserschmarren or Emperor’s Mess
OK, promises, promises.A little more about the Kaiserschmarren.The name Kaiserschmarren is a compound of the words Kaiser (emperor) and Schmarren (a scrambled or shredded dish). Schmarren is also a colloquialism used in Austrian and Bavarian to mean trifle, mishmash, mess, rubbish, or nonsense. The word “Schmarren” is related to scharren (to scrape) and schmieren (to…
Buying Pistachios at the Market in Yazd
The pistachio (Pistacia vera), a member of the cashew family, is a small tree originating from an area that includes Afghanistan, Central Asia, and Iran. The tree produces seeds that are widely consumed as food.The name pistachio is from late Middle English pistace, from Old French, superseded in the 16th century by forms from Italian…
Kebab in Iran
Kebab, kebob, kabob…According to tradition, the dish was invented by medieval soldiers who used their swords to grill meat over open-field fires. Kebab, also spelled kebob or kabob, dish of Middle Eastern or Central Asian origin that typically combines small pieces of meat such as lamb or beef with vegetables on a skewer and is…