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Today’s baking
This is Quito, where everything bakes and cooks different. Hence the texture.
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Germaine Tailleferre *IV 19 1892 — The Life You Give
Of significance as the sole female member of the post-World War I group of French composers known as Les Six, Germaine Tailleferre remained a prominent — if somewhat inaccessible — musician long after the disintegration of that group during the middle and late 1920s. She left behind, at her death in 1983 at the age…
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From my first humita batch (with improvisation)
This is an humita from my first batch try. It is a traditional dish, similar to tamales, made with the tender corn, and because of the tender state, it is called choclo, instead of corn. Usually the humita is wrapped in the husk in which the corn grows but I did not have enough. Therefore…
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choclo — first humita try
Generally speaking, it is a sweet corn. The difference is the state of maturity. A choclo is a sweet corn in its very early, tender state of ripeness. It could be seen as a cultural decision and tradition in this area, including Ecuador, to use the choclo as something special, although it is very common.…
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Lindsay Anderson *IV 17 1923 — The Life You Give
Lindsay Anderson, born April 17, 1923, in Bangalore, India, is the critic, and stage and film director who was a member of the Free Cinema and Angry Young Men movements. Anderson received a degree in English from the University of Oxford and in 1947 became a founding editor of the film magazine Sequence, which lasted…
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Guardian of the Farm — from the roof (Quito)
Guardian of the Farm by Warped / Aganorsa Leaf Origin: NicaraguaBinder: NicaraguanFiller: Nicaraguan mixture of Corojo ’99 and Criollo ’98 long-fillersWrapper: Corojo ’99 wrapper leaf grown in the Jalapa valley
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