On Food and Cooking

and soups. Thanks to the tendency of the nut proteins to coagulate, cooks can thicken nut milks with acid ...

cultivated almond, Prunus amygdalus, came from western Asia and had been domesticated by the Bronze Age. Califo ...

Almond Milk and Cream in Medieval Times Blancmange Take capons and seeth them, then take them up. ...

in dishes, and serve it forth. — From a medieval manuscript, published in R. Warner, Antiquitates Culinariae, ...

bitterness and the characteristic aroma. Bitter almonds are generally unavailable in the United States, while in Europe ...

are still the main producers. The pods are gathered only after they fall to the ground. Be ...

The almond, a close relative of the peach, plum, and cherry, with its stony shell. Almond Extracts a ...

transplanted to India and East Africa by the Portuguese, and today these regions are the world’ ...

different species of large trees in the genus Castanea, which are found in Europe, Asia, and Nor ...

chestnut, Castanea dentata, was brought to a sad end in the early 20th century, when in the course of a ...

why is it that in a bowl of mixed nuts, the small nuts end up at the bottom and the Brazil ...

Middle Ages. About 20 billion nuts are produced each year, mainly in the Philippines, India, and Indone ...

liquid in which to cook all kinds of foods, from meats and fish to vegetables and rice. Since the coconut ...

harden, and it’s mature at a year. Immature coconuts, around five to seven months old, offer their ...

should feel heavy and contain enough liquid to slosh audibly. If coconut meat is pounded in a mortar or g ...

90% saturated (15% caprylic and capric, 45% lauric, 18% myristic, 10% palmitic, and just 8% monounsaturated oleic), ...

fruits are fermented in vats of water to soften and remove the pulp, and the seeds are washed, drie ...

for hazelnuts in sauces for birds, boar, and mullet; they’re an alternative to almonds in Spanish pi ...

sugar syrup, and eaten as a sweet. The distinctive aroma of hazelnuts comes from a compound dubbed filbert ...

Because their shells are extremely hard, they are sold almost exclusively out-of-shell, often packed in cans o ...