Larb salad, or sophistication made easy

  Name: Larb pork Eaten in: Thailand Category: Traditional Whenever I had larb anything at at Thai restaurant, I wondered at how complicated it must be to make such a dish. It turns out I was completely wrong. What makes the larb is the combination of lime, mint, fish sauce

How I won the battle of Ablo

  Name: Ablo Eaten in: West Africa Category: Traditional I decided that I was going to make ablo, and ablo I was going to make. They are traditional corn and rice flour dumplings that are made and sold by women on street corners in Côte d’Ivoire. If you have a good ablo supplier

Sauce feuille, togolese spinach stew

Name: Sauce feuille Eaten in: Togo/West Africa Category: Traditional   There are different types of “sauce feuille” in West Africa.  The leaf stew, as the literal translation goes, is typically made of sweet potato or cassava leaves, but it is sometimes made with spinach,