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Eat This Newsletter 022

 

25 January 2016

Combination platter

  1. For starters, this week on the podcast, a second helping from 2015: talking to Anissa Helou at Koshari Street in Lonodn about koshari and street food.
  2. Somehow everybody seems to be dissecting “Indian” food. This time, it’s the turn of Shylashri Shankar to trace the journey From An Imperial To A National Cuisine.
  3. And if that makes you long for different ways of eating rice, The Old Foodie has lined up a selection of Variations on a Theme of Fried Rice.
  4. Sticking with cereals, at last, someone who actually understands the different hulled and heirloom wheats.

There’ll be another second helping next week. Let me know if there’s anything you think should be heard again. And then, back to normal programming.

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