The debate between polvorones and mantecados being the same thing has been around for some time but remember that when it comes to food one ingredient can make a whole different thing with a different name, kid of like the difference between ice cream and gelato, bolognese and ragú, you get the picture. Now, let’sContinue reading “Polvorones vs Mantecados”
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Bananas were a far cry from what we know today
About 7,000 years ago, bananas were not the soft, fleshy, seedless fruits we know today. The pulp was full of black seeds and was almost inedible. Instead, people ate the banana flowers or their underground tubers. They also extracted fibers from the trunk-shaped stem to make rope and clothing. Banana trees back then were “aContinue reading “Bananas were a far cry from what we know today”