ethnic-cuisine

Where To Eat Ethiopian Food In Washington, D.C.

[embedImage=https://www.foodrepublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/DC-CherCherTibs2-700x465.jpg] Ethiopian-born chef Marcus Samuelsson shows TV’s Anthony Bourdain around his native country in an upcoming episode of the award-winning CNN series Parts Unknown, scheduled to air on Sunday, October 25. (The show is produced by Food Republic’s parent company, Zero Point Zero Production.) Catch an advance screening of the Ethiopia episode, accompanied by specialty…

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Where To Eat Great Tibetan, Nepalese And Bhutanese Food In NYC's Himalayan Heights

Jackson Heights, Queens, has long been a stronghold of South Asian cuisines, particularly Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Indian. Sari shops and stores specializing in Indian bridal jewelry line the stretch of 74th Street named for Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian-American astronaut. Over the past decade or so, there has been a vast influx of people from the…

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The United Nations Of Dough: 13 International Bakeries Around Los Angeles

French and American baked goods may dominate pastry cases in Los Angeles cafés and coffee bars, but the rest of the world has its own traditions that demand some serious attention as well. As you will see, we’ve discovered a baker’s dozen of the best bakeries, representing cuisines from Asia, Central and South America, Mexico…

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7 Ethnic Food Markets To Explore In Queens

The home of people, and food, from all over the world — from Latin America to Southeast Asia and the United Kingdom to the Mediterranean — Queens is arguably the most diverse and delicious 109 square miles in New York City, if not all of America. Best of all, each of the borough’s many ethnic…

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Our 30 Hottest And Spiciest Recipes To Cook At Home...If You Dare

What an awesome holiday — it's National Hot and Spicy Food Day! We celebrate hot and spicy foods all the time, and since we know hot foods cool you off when the temperature spikes, August 19th seems like the perfect day to celebrate all things picante. Whether you're a stalwart vegetarian or devoted carnivore, as…

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Demand For Ethnic Food Is Exploding In America. How Will Food Companies Respond?

At the grocery store, spices are getting hotter. Fruit flavoring, fruitier. So reports The New York Times this morning in an expansive story outlining the growing (some may call it exploding) demand for so-called ethnic foods. Staff writer Stephanie Strom, who reports from the amazingly named Chicken Media Summit in New Bern, North Carolina, keys…

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32 Comfort Food Dishes From Around The World

There's a time to eat healthy, to count calories and increase your vegetable intake and all that. That time is coming soon enough. Actually, next week, for many of us start-the-year-righters. But for now, we want Swedish meatballs, enchiladas, fried chicken — truly savory dishes that hit the spot. Here are 32 surefire comfort food…

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An Outrageous Idea About Thanksgiving Next Year

The first article I read by a food writer citing paralyzing Thanksgiving fatigue validated my feelings. The second empowered me. And by the time I was finished reading many others' pleas for some sort of evolution to the annual day of "everything on the line because you're a food writer" cooking and feasting we're expected…

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12 Ethnic Twists On Thanksgiving Sides

Really? You have no interest in deviating from potatoes, stuffing, some kind of veggies...and nothing with harissa, cumin, ginger, soy sauce or any of the other ethnic ingredients that make life every other day of the year worth living? Invite an outsider to this year's Thanksgiving — here are our 12 favorite Thanksgiving-appropriate side dishes…

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Guide: Blood Sausage Around The World

Stomach lining, kidneys, pancreas — these spare parts, or offal, are all items that have become increasingly common to the pop-culinary world. Blood, however, is first getting its footing in the nose-to-tail game.There are a few uses that are popping up on menus including canard à la presse (duck that’s been pressed to release its “juices” and…

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Top 5: Middle Eastern Recipes

At Food Republic we like to bring you a wide variety of exotic recipes from every corner of the world. Whether it's Indian comfort food or an easy Cuban black bean soup, there is something for everyone. For me, comfort food means Middle Eastern fare. Growing up in Cairo gave me access to delicious falafel,…

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9 Exotic Winter Comfort Food Dishes

When the weather gets cold, folks tend toward standby comfort foods like macaroni and cheese, chili and pot pies. Rather than go with a trendy riff on an original, this weekend we're bringing you recipes from around the world. That's right, America did not invent comfort food. From Mexico to Greece and beyond, this is…

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Archive Of Ethnic Foods In NYC

In 2007, we collaborated on an idea to open a shop that purchased food from interesting ethnic stores, markets and vendors from all over the 5 boroughs of NYC. The concept, though ill fated, produced some interesting research. As we delved into this project we came to learn that we shared a love for foraging…

By Zakary Pelaccio and Jori Jayne Emde Read More

Summertime: You Gotta Roll With It

It was a sweaty, sunny August afternoon, the type of day that demands you to fill a cooler with cold beer and fire up the grill. My graphic designer wife had other designs. “I want Vietnamese summer rolls,” she commanded, as imperiously as a mad queen demanding her servants draw her a bath of children’s…

By Joshua M. Bernstein Read More

Biryani: Citizen Of The World

Not that I Wikipedia every dish I pick for lunch, but the entry for biryani gave me a little shock. There are 21 individual sections for the most widely consumed kinds of this Arab/South Asian rice dish, to say nothing of the 7 "See also: Biryani variants" directly below those. Seems like a certain region…

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