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Name: Pastel Borracho (drunken cake)
Eaten in: Colombia
Category: Modern
If you ever have some extra rum in your kitchen, and you’d rather use it in a way that won’t have you do anything you regret…
Name: Bizcochuelo
Eaten in: Colombia
Category: Modern
I made this cake as the base for the pastel borracho (Colombian-style drunken) cake. It is a very light cake (lots of egg whites) and on the dry side, which is why it is perfect to soak…
Name: Gateau mal élevé (ill-mannered cake)
Eaten in: Martinique (French Caribbean)
Category: Traditional
This flan-like cake gets his name from the local slang as its main ingredients take on completely different and colorful meanings…
The sweet scent of “poulet braise” will always remind me of Sunday lunches or days spent at the beach in Bassam. In Côte d’Ivoire. The chicken is never plain and always coated in a mixture of spices that vary from regions to regions. This version is from the center of the country and is different from the one I grew up eating, especially with the addition of the colorful …
