by Mike DiGiacomo | Jul 4, 2022 | Spices and Recipes
How lack of food and a former communist congressman in Albania helped preserve a family recipe that uses bay leaf, one of at least five popular varieties of this spice. Bay leaf is used all over the world due to its many varieties. There are at least five kinds of...
by Mike DiGiacomo | Jun 15, 2022 | Spices and Recipes
Iranian cuisine is among the world’s few that still uses barberries. Nushin Musavi, made Omaha home and chose Tachin or Persian Saffron Rice to represent her home country. Barberry is a dry fruit, known for its acidic flavor. Much like citrus peels, barberries...
by Mike DiGiacomo | Apr 16, 2022 | Spices and Recipes
Two versions of the same salad, prepared by Pla and Joy, two sisters, chefs and restaurant owners in Omaha, Nebraska. Borders are blurred when it comes to food and that is the case with papaya salad, which may or may not contain anchovy sauce, a staple of Indochinese...
by Mike DiGiacomo | Jun 17, 2021 | Spices and Recipes
Mike DiGiacomo wraps up the first season of Spice and Recipe: The Origins of Flavor. 17 guests from 13 countries shared their recipes and stories. All the guests, but the Costa Rican chef, live in Omaha, Nebraska, in the heart of America. Spice and Recipe: The Origins...
by Mike DiGiacomo | Jun 6, 2021 | Spices and Recipes
Chef Ursula Adduci, originally of Costa Rica and now of Chicago, prepares quick summer recipes for “Spice & Recipe: The Origins of Flavor” with Mike DiGiacomo via ZOOM. Costa Ricans or Ticos, as they call themselves, live long. Fish, ginger, and...
