Thursday, August 27, 2009

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A qualcuno piace "hot"! Le rotte delle spezie (parte prima)


Some Like It Hot (Some Like It Hot - hot or "hot") was the title of a great movie where Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon (Geraldine and Josephine) running away from a band of gangsters and end up in Florida in the midst of a thousand guai.

Mi direte: cosa c'entra un film come quello in un blog di cucina ligure-peruana? Niente, ma era un ottimo inizio per parlare di spezie, e quelle, come abbiamo visto qui e qui c'entrano e parecchio con la cucina ligure-peruana (e non solo con quella ovviamente)!

Nel 1999 due antropologi americani, Paul W Sherman e la sua studentessa Jennifer Billing, si sono messi di impegno ed hanno sostenuto scientificamente un approccio di tipo darwiniano al perchè utilizziamo le spezie in cucina, dando alle stampe il risultato dei loro studi in questa pubblicazione scientifica: "Darwinian gastronomy: Why we use spices - Some like it hot" .

Riassunto brevemente, their study shows that use spices because "we do well," especially in terms of preventive-medicine and this is thanks to an evolution, Darwinian fact, the taste of our species.















What the study does not address, however, is all the socio-cultural context in which it has grown this huge global market for spices, relegated to a mere roulette "and use the spices are an advantage" - "I do not use the spices and they are penalized," the development of a cooking spice in the world.

not explain, finally, because in many countries are used spices imported from abroad and vice versa, and as human nature, elevated above the simple cause and effect, have actually taken certain decisions to manage consciously control the movement of spices.

To try to make sense of the spread of spices in the world, we begin a long, long journey, between people mysterious and unknown seas, the spice routes.

The beginning: frankincense and myrrh, cassia and later

Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut had given the order, and they move quickly masters the five large ships to the South, to the legendary land of Punt. The crews did not know it yet, but several months later they would return to Egypt with ships filled with valuable products, precious woods, monkeys with long tails, greyhounds, leopard skins, and, finally, ointments irreplaceable: frankincense, myrrh and cassia .

envoys who came to Punt, located in front of him a flat terrain and thickly wooded.
conical huts of the inhabitants are made in large quantities. Near them, herds of cows resting quietly in the shade of some trees, and strange birds flying in the sky.

The commander of the expedition he came to the village chief, accompanied by family members. Parihu, this is its name, is adorned a large pearl necklace, and wears a long beard and thin, facing up.

But their attention is catalyzed by the wife of the headman, Ati.
It 's a huge woman, obese, excessive, with rolls of flesh on the arms and body, and carries two lines tattooed on the cheeks from the corners of the mouth to nearly the ears.

Parihu, visibly surprised, asks the leader of the expedition: "How did you come to this land unknown to the people of Egypt? From the street of the sky or do you have sailed the sea for Ta-Nuter? You must have followed the path of the sun . As for the King of Egypt, there are no roads that are inaccessible to His Majesty; we live the air that he gives us. "

The head of the Egyptian expedition led calls for the gifts to the prince of Punt: beads, necklaces, bracelets, ceremonial dagger and ax. Parihu as a sign of gratitude and homage to the Egyptian queen, order to accumulate the best products of their land near the ships.

are thus brought incense trees, sycamore trees to extract the resinous myrrh, cassia bags, logs of ebony, monkeys, giraffes, pure ivory, gold and agates.

In Egypt, the practice of embalming of the bodies is surprisingly old. The bodies began to be embalmed between 2613 and 2494 BC under the pharaohs of the Fourth Dynasty. As early as 5000 BC, however, the bodies were preserved by burial in the hot and dry desert sand. True techniques, which involved the use of substances with antibacterial properties, were used between 1567 and 1200 BC

Myrrh and cassia (Chinese cinnamon) were two of the ointments used for embalming, while the ' incense was burned in Egyptian burial rites.

The mysterious land of Punt, the source of the trade in frankincense, myrrh, and later, but crucial, cassia to Egypt, is expected to be located on the western shores of the Red Sea, in piena Somalia. Di questa regione sono originari gli alberi dell'incenso, mentre più ad est, verso il Corno d'Africa, è originaria la mirra.

Il primo viaggio conosciuto verso questa regione è quello organizzato dal faraone Sahure della quinta dinastia (circa 2550 a.C.). Le sue navi riportarono incenso, mirra, oro, argento, legno prezioso e schiavi da Punt e da molte altre terre ed isole che incontrarono durante il viaggio.

Il faraone Asa (Isesi) seguì l’esempio di Sahure e intorno 2400 a.C. spedì anche lui le sue flotte alla terra di Punt.

I più noti e forse più fruttuosi, fra questi viaggi, sono quelli organizzati dalla regina Hatshepsut (1501-1482 BC) and documented in the reliefs of the temple of Deir-el-Bahari, which she had built at Thebes in honor of Amen-Ra. The expedition's main Hatshepsut consisted of at least five large ships with thirty rowers each. They departed from somewhere in the Red Sea and remained absent for three years.

According to reports on the life of Ramses IV in the Harris papyrus, preserved in the British Library, the pharaoh Ramses III sent an expedition of 10,000 men to Punt in 1180 BC

The last shipment we know, about midway through the second century BC was organized with the help of merchants and bankers of Massilia, modern Marseille.

Cassia, the first tipologia di cannella che arriverà nel Mediterraneo intorno al 2000 a.C., ed anch'essa fondamentale per le procedure di imbalsamazione, proviene invece dal sud della Cina, ma all'epoca era già coltivata in Malesia. Da qui, attraverso un viaggio di 5000 miglia nell'Oceano Indiano su canoe a due galleggianti ed un albero, veniva portata direttamente in Madagascar, per passare nelle mani dei commercianti arabi che l'avrebbero portata più a nord, verso il Mar Rosso e la terra di Punt.

Il grande sviluppo delle tecniche di imbalsamazione aumenta la domanda di spezie: agli originari incenso e mirra, che venivano prodotti nel continente africano, si aggiunge la richiesta di cannella che arriva Malaysia (and later India where he will begin intensive production of cash to meet the growing demand from new markets Egyptians).

Both the incense myrrh have excellent antiseptic properties, and certainly not lower than that of cassia, which will be imported, however, to increase the total volume of ointments applied to Egypt alone are not enough local production of incense and myrrh.

In this way, the East began to look west, starting a profitable export of spices, goods and products first.

But to increase the range of spices exported and stabilize the flow of goods from the East, the new consumers were be prepared to receive them.

A real open markets and enhancing the image of a brand, which will be carried out by two basic elements: the first united India and Greece and the second ... much more tied to a modern marketing action itself.

- CONTINUED -

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Which Is Better Boiled Or Unboiled Milk On Face

Il pesto. Quando alla tradizione si vuole mettere una camicia ingessata

Green Flag of Ligurian cuisine


My grandfather is 80 years old. When he was small, in Liguria, ate the pesto.
His grandfather died at 80 years. When his grandfather was a child, in Liguria, you ate the garlic sauce. And the pesto is not

exist.

The green sauce, which made famous the Liguria around the world is, in fact, a seasoning that has undergone significant changes and transformations over time, until you get to the recipe "temporarily permanent" today.

There are some, in recent times, the DOP asked, trying to "fix" a specification for the preparation of pesto, and the necessary ingredients.

In fact, one might ask whether it makes sense to limit the natural evolution of taste, and if, instead, all this has clear objectives behind trade protection in a world getting smaller, where local products become international and totally beyond the control of the original manufacturer.

Before pesto, garlic
If we trace the origins of the current pitch, we need not delve into centuries of history: he was born and has established itself in a period from the beginning of the end of the 800 900.

But if we want to find out how we arrived at the pitch we have to go much further. Both in time and space.

In a collection of cuneiform documents belonging to Yale University (USA) are the top three boards that had been exchanged for drug prescriptions, and that after careful consideration, were soon revealed collections of culinary recipes.

written in Akkadian and dated about 1700 BC, are the first document of historic recipes and garlic makes his first appearance as a culinary ingredient.

This bulb is thought originating in Central Asia and India, was brought to the West through trade and movements of peoples, to arrive very early in the Mediterranean basin.

Since there is writing, it is reported in Greece, Egypt, Palestine, until you get to Rome and from there spread throughout the known world.

always consumed for its virtues, has accompagnato l'umanità nel suo percorso gastronomico fino ai giorni odierni.

Nella storia è consumato da solo, oppure inserito come ingrediente in molti piatti, fino a crearne condimenti veri e propri. Le prime salse all'aglio di cui si ha notizia, erano realizzate con vari elementi liquidi, come agresto (succo di uva acerbo), aceto, succo d'arancia o da vino, erano cioè salse non unte, amalgamate senza l'utilizzo di condimenti grassi, né di origine animale (burro), tantomeno vegetale (olio di oliva).

L'agliata (agiadda o aié in dialetto ligure), una salsa medioevale diffusa in tutta Italia, a base di aglio pestato, potrebbe essere considerata tra le prime greasy sauces, made with olive oil and gastronomy.
Of this there are several versions, especially related to the production area. Thus we find the garlic with olive oil ponentino Ligurian hinterland, while the coast was a favorite vinegar.
Val Pentemina over Genoa, bordering the provinces of Alessandria and Piacenza, the version includes the cream (whipped cream) for collecting outcrop.

All recipes sauces of garlic that have been handed down by tradition, provide for variations in the ingredients, both for their availability (walnuts, pine nuts, milk, oil) for the evolution of the cook. The

pentemino minced garlic, in particular, contains all the ingredients of the pesto with the replacement of milk cream and basil.

After the garlic, basil
How has entered the basil in the minced garlic, we can not know for sure, but we have the original recipe for a sauce that accompanied vegetable soups and that was, perhaps, the evolution of a previous garlic and basil sauce, which was added the cheese.

In "The Genoese cook," the title of a collection of recipes from Genoa in 1863, the author shows the proportion of cheese sauce in a mix of parmesan cheese and Holland (which were highly popular in Genoa, because of historically privileged trade with the Netherlands, see previous post), later replaced with pecorino cheese (fresh or aged, depending on your taste) in the city, and the 'prescinseua "in the Levant and Tigullio (variation still present). Were also mentioned, in place of basil, other herbs such as parsley or marjoram.

Pesto present had not yet defined.

Then, after a few years, copying the recipe and add many more (perhaps too many), Emanuele Rossi he published his book "The True Genoese cook easy and inexpensive way of preparing or e cuocere ogni genere di vivande ".

Nel 1910, Emerico Romano Calvetti, facendo una stringata sintesi delle due cuciniere, dà una sua versione, citando la ricetta n° 39, la battuta o savore d'aglio , con la eliminazione definitiva del formaggio olandese.

Ancora nel 1918 un ufficiale genovese dell'esercito, Giuseppe Chioni, scrisse un libro di ricette intitolato Arte culinaria , che tra gli ingredienti del pesto indicava: basilico, aglio, prezzemolo, cipolla, droghe , formaggio sardo.
Nessuna traccia ancora dei pinoli. La conclusione ovvia che si può trarre è che l'uso dei pinoli (o delle noci come riportanto alcune ricette) nella preparation of the pesto is a very recent practice. For this reason

"hook" the recipe of pesto to a PDO, a traditional tendency to limit the subsequent changes and developments of this sauce so much that has changed over time. Although, perhaps, temporarily save the pockets of some local producer of "pesto in a jar PDO.

More sensibly, and I would say with great foresight, has been attributed to the production of the DOP its main ingredient: basil.

The "typical" of Ligurian basil
to get a unique pesto Genovese basil is right, or rather three of its 69 varieties.

Over the years we have established in Liguria some varieties suitable for the production of basil basil typical geneve, and characterized by the absolute absence of any hint of mint, a very intense aroma and pleasant, as well as a coloring leaves very tenuous.

The characteristics described above, it is easy to be found also in the subsequent processing of the raw material, are determined by the particular climatic conditions of Liguria.

Dario Bressanini, in an article in the online edition of Scientific American Italian version, fully analyzed in some studies that have been carried out on the basil. In a nutshell, this shows that the methodology used in the cultivation and selection of seedlings of basil as in Liguria, has a scientific basis, even if achieved empirically and attempts by our farmers.

The size of the crop, so the age, sun exposure, methods of working to reduce it to basil pesto, are all important elements that are reflected in the success of a sensory Ligurian pesto, Genoa or better.

The same plants, grown elsewhere, are subject to an alteration in the development of aromatic oils and alter, ultimately, the success of a pitch that has the same aromi di quello che si può consumare in riviera.

Del resto, mio nonno già sapeva che se avesse mandato una piantina di basilico genovese a suo cognato di Cuneo, sarebbe cresciuta con un forte sentore di menta, e quindi preferiva rimandarlo a casa con dei barattolini di pesto coperto da un velo d'olio.

Ma allora, quale è la ricetta definitiva del pesto?

La ricetta "definitiva" del pesto
La risposta non è semplice perchè non è unica.

La base da cui si potrebbe provare a partire è quella della ricetta del consorzio genovese del pesto , quel consorzio che come abbiamo visto in apertura sta cercando di ottenere la DOP. E' sicuramente una ottima base di partenza e che permette la riuscita di un ottimo pesto, carico delle sfumature aromatiche tipiche di come lo si consuma oggi a Genova e dintorni.

Un profano, ovvero un non-ligure, seguendo la ricetta indicata sopra riuscirà ad ottenere un ottimo pesto, ma per un ligure la cosa è differente:
in ogni singola casa si realizza il pesto come si è abituati, con le percentuali di ingredienti che non vengono mai misurate sul bilancino, ma aggiunte ad occhio, o meglio a palmi, manciate e pizzichi, dalla massaia che lo sta preparando e che lo ha preparato e visto preparare innumerevoli volte sin da piccola.

Del resto il senso del gusto si origina allo svezzamento and grows and evolves throughout our lives, but we will come back on this in another post.

We have seen how the cebiche plate, elected representative of Peru, has evolved over 2000 years of history, so the pesto, the son of previous culinary traditions, and according to the area of \u200b\u200bproduction, could see the addition or substitution of ingredients: pine nuts with walnuts, prescinseua to wheat or sheep, and so on.

remain unchanged only garlic, olive oil and basil, these are fundamental to reach the sublime aroma of Ligurian pesto.

Monday, August 24, 2009

My Siberian Has Diarrohea

100 e 1 cebiche (o ceviche)

COURSE HELD Nation's cultural heritage

The most famous Peruvian dish and elected as the "national dish" is the Cebiche that takes place with very fresh fish fillet, cut into cubes and cooked with raw juice lemon, thinly sliced \u200b\u200bonion and a pinch of spicy aji, the name of a particular and powerful Peruvian chili.

Elsewhere in the Pacific coast until arriving in Oceania there are other types of Cebiche, but none can compare with the Peruvian whom are, inter alia, fifty versions.

course all the restaurants in Lima are racing to prepare the best Cebiche the city, which is also a great undertaking, given the competition they face with the Japanese Peruvians.

Twenty years ago they made a fashion Cebiche "al dente", inspired by the raw Sahimi, today this has changed in the normal fashion with the variant called "Tiradito" that is not prepared with onions, cubes of fish are more but looks great with different sauces and tasty.

Cebiche Some add a touch of the "sillau, soy sauce, mustard add some more daring, with pureed aji yellow or lettuce, fish broth, white wine, a few drops of milk, these connoisseurs of good taste not only merely to do with the fish, but they the dish garnished with all kinds of seafood on the coast of Peru, such as shrimps, prawns, octopus, clams, mussels, squid, sea snails, sea urchins.

It can also serve hot, fried, and always accompanied by stimulating spicy aji.

We will see, along with the most renowned chefs of Lima, the various cebiches and how none of them is better than another. Simply all form one big winner with the name: the cebiche peruano.

We're going to find, to start, Humberto Sato, maker of kitchen Nikkey, the Japan-Peruvian fusion cuisine.

Humberto Sato
Costanera Av Del Ejercito 700

421 Miraflores, Lima








Question: How changed the recipe of your memories from today's recipe?
Answer: mainly in color, no? Today cebiche is .. white.
D: was yellow before?
A: It was yellow aji amarillo paste.
D: With what company?
A: With camote and choclo. Even with potatoes and choclo
Q: What year we talking about?
R: 50, 51, thereabouts.
Q: And the current method, simply mix the fish with lemon and serve?
R: let soak a long time. Was held in a tray, right? And of course the fish "threw" the sauce and the sauce was called "leche de tiger (tiger's milk).
D: And what is your "truth" today? How to prepare yourself for the cebiche?
R: It 's very difficult to answer, because ... there are different tastes.
D: I modify the question: What you should do in preparation of cebiche?
R: The basis: the more the fish is fresh, the better. The more fresh lemon, the better. Therefore we should not use fish that is not fresh. Also, I could not tell if this is or is not, but I like having its leaf salad.
In cebiche everything has its own justification. The lettuce does not have a decorative function in reality, but a function for refreshing the palate. The camote has the function of balance, one while eating said: acid, acid, nitric acid, bang a little sweet (and accentuates the flavor), and also a cebiche is pure protein and the camote and add the part choclo carbohydrate necessary to balance the dish.
Q: What was to make your cebiche so famous?
R: Look, I do not complicate your life, or the accomplice to the diner is not it? My cebiche one could say that is the most simple, does not taste aggressively. Once it is ready, add the fish stock. It 's a taste soft, not loud or aggressive.
Q: And what is the cebiche they like you?
R: Well, I put on the sillao (soy sauce). It will completely change the flavor. However, it is important, it continues to be cebiche.
D: Sarebbe come dire che tu non sei peruano, no?
R: ahah certo, ahah, proprio così.

Esistono varie tendenze, il cebiche cambiò, si modernizzò, si adattò al gusto della gente, si preparò crudo. In Lima ci sono varie persone che si attribuiscono il merito di avere inventato il cebiche moderno.

Una di queste è Pedro Solari, "Pedrito" per i peruani. Sulla breccia da 85 anni ma ancora vispo e gran chef.

Pedro Solari
Jr. Cahuide 995
Jesus Maria, Lima







D:
Il cebiche we eat now is the cebiche that you were?
R: Yeah, sure.
D: And ..?
R: The "fish instantly." Cut immediately and you instantly.
D: But how did this method?
R: Look, we were at sea, catch a roballo. I opened up, cut it and made the cebiche. And ate it instantly. I was in Lima, and the proposed way.

But there are others who seek to outsource the recipe. Only simple ingredients for cebiche base. The rest will depend on the skill of the person who prepares e, chiaramente, dalla freschezza degli ingredienti.

Don Cucho è considerato il maestro del cebiche tra tutti i cebicheros del Peru, ed esperto tra le moltissime varietà di pesce che uno può incontrare nel mare del Peru.

Cucho La Rosa
Hacienda Casa Blanca
Pachacamac, Lima
Calle 8 lote 14 – A







D:
Quale è il re dei pesci per il cebiche?
R: Il re lo abbiamo proprio qui: il lenguado. Ma anche tutto il pesce fresco, immacolatamente fresco, va bene per il cebiche. Tutto il processo per cebiche preparation must be done right now. start with the onion. Red.
D: There is a reason to wash the fish with the onion?
R: E 'to remove "force" the onion, pepper, however, transferred in the same time allows the fish, subtly. And then the aji limo. I like to use it in different colors, yellow, red, to brighten the dish.
And now is a trick that we use for some time, and that gives a special dimension to cebiche. Ice. Before you add the lemon. Ice should be removed, it takes a few seconds in, and lemon, squeezed and should not be cut even before participating in the feast of cebiche. camote morado, camote amarillo, boiled choclo ... ready. Two minutes to prepare cebiche the best in the world.

Any fresh fish is good for a good cebiche. Even if the teachers agree that the lenguado continue to be a star.

Javier Wong is one of the most famous chefs in Lima. But if you do not have the exact address, you can never find it. His restaurant, called Sankuay, no signs and his door is always closed. It should be open for play. But behind this door you can meet the real magic.

There is no menu, Wong will give you a look and let you know what it is about to serve.

Chez Wong
Leon Garcia Jr. 114
Santa Catalina, La Victoria, Lima





D:
what I propose today?
R: cebiche a special with pineapple.
Aji Limo, pineapple and peanuts, and add a bit 'of parsley. Peanuts can give you some balance, and pineapples melts completely. Here he is, ready, complete with the scent of freshness.

Tolerance is a great virtue of Peruvian cuisine, accepting and merging together to build something wonderful. Simultaneously, the Peruvian

, depending on the region, say no! In cebiche not use this ingredient! We use this one! The limen, for example, will argue to the bitter end that should serve cebiche with camote camote and nothing but, but ... we're going to find it is not always the case. In

Avenida Garzon, we find the restaurant "Don Fernando", specializing in the cuisine of northern Peru, and its chef, Fernando Vera.


Don Fernando Vera Fernando Garzon
Av 1788
Jesus Maria, Lima







D: The first variant
cebiche between the North and the South?
R: E 'the aji Moceri, Moceri on. But even the aji cerezo of Chiclayo.
D: In preparation we have a difference, right? Aji different depending on the area where the North is preparing, but also with regard to the fish?
A: Yes We use the Annex Tojo, has an extraordinary meat. And then the race, only washed with sea water. And finally, the king of the Pacific: the mourique. And then the thing that is common to all and that has no equal in the north: the best lemon del Peru. Facciamo anche cebiche di conchitas (frutti di mare), granchio, ed ogni cebiche ha la sua consistenza particolare a seconda del pesce che viene utilizzato.

Finiamo il tour con il più grande chef attualmente vivente del Peru ed ambasciatore della cucina peruana nel mondo: Gastón Acurio.

Astrid&Gastón
Calle Cantuarias 175
Miraflores, Lima








D:
ci mostreresti la preparazione di un buon cebiche?
R: Certo! Abbiamo questi ajies, i cerezos di lambajece, l’aji mocero, wonderful, of Trujillo, we have these ajies of the Amazon forest, never seen before, and then the aji charrapita el'aji pipiemono.

I am in Lima el'aji natural here to do a good cebiche is the aji limo. We have red, yellow, Moradi, but now we use the red silt that is a bit 'that is the aji in Lima. Ok?
Besides, what fish? We use the corvina. We who have grown up and have lived in Lima, we have always used the corvina, because this fish is naturally occurring in the coastal outskirts of Lima, both north and south.

And for this lemon, quello del nord. Il nord del Peru ha una condizione geografica e climatica tale per cui il loro limone ha un sapore praticamente insostituibile. E voglio accompagnare questa corvina con questi altri prodotti. Questi calamari sono stati pescati in Raura, e poi le conchas bianche (molluschi).

Specificare la dimensione dei pezzetti di pesce, più grandi, più piccoli, bhe qui stiamo entrando nel regno del gusto personale. Prendiamo una ciotola grande di vetro, mettiamo i calamari, le conchas, e ora vi insegno un segreto che ho appreso molto tempo fa.

Voglio dargli l’aroma e l’aroma dell’aji limo è inconfondibile, I take a piece and rub vigorously on the bottom of the bowl because the flavor remains and is transferred to the fish. add a pinch of salt, and start to squeeze the lemon.


Another secret that I taught Don Cuche, concerns the lemon. If one squeezes too, automatically transfers the bitter white part in the juice of the lemon juice. The lemon should be squeezed lightly, without destroying the outside. Then red onion, another secret: you must not be stingy with the onion, remove the core to remove the bitterness and let the aroma.

One shot, two, ready! Here is the basis, and from here you can add what you like, and do not have to hear those who say to you - not to put this, did not put that - they are mistaken. If you like ginger, put him a bit 'ginger if you like garlic, put him a bit' of garlic, if you like the culantro, add it, also applies to the celery or any other flavor. Experience! Enjoy!


This is the universe of cebiche peruano today, but cebiche has an ancient history. The cebiche
comes from afar, not in space but in time. The lemons were imported to South America after Columbus discovered the New World, and then, the ingredients that were used were different.

Starting from the Mochica, around the year 100 of our calendar, ancient people of northern Peru. Great fishing, had seen fit to combine the fresh fish with the fermented juice of Tumba. I no longer exist but the Mochica Tumbo yes, and (of course) a particular taste.
Slightly sweet, it looks like (very vaguely) to our melon, but not so sweet. Usually "drink", or prepare for amazing smoothies refreshing of Tumba.

few centuries later, in 1400 advanced, while the Inca empire, but the fish was marinated with chicha.

The chicha was and is an alcoholic beverage produced by fermenting non-distilled corn. Was used for libations, which in medicine (as an anesthetic), which propitiatory offerings to the sun god: it was thought that the corn were the tears of the sun because of its golden color, and then was offered a drink which was elaborated from maize.

During this time, off the coast of Peru, as well as chicha already added salt and aji marinade for fish.

With the conquistadors arrived in South America also the onion and lemon, and the latter made it possible to shorten the time needed to prepare this dish. But before we get

the recipe today itself we have a final result: the orange.

Wives (more) of the conquistadors, the fish were macerated with aji, salt and sour oranges, and was called "sibech" which in Arabic means "lunch acid.

Regarding the etymology of the word cebiche, there are several "schools" of thought:

  • English School, suggests that the word may derive from cebiche "sikbag" identifying a method of preserving food with liquid acids such as vinegar (hence also the English escabeche or scabeccio Liguria.
  • School peruana, derive the word from the Quechua word cebiche "Siwichi" which means fresh fish or fish tender.
  • mixed schools, presumes that the two words "sikbag" and "siwichi" merged in the current cebiche after the invasion of the Spaniards.
  • One modern historian, Juan José Vega proposed the origin from the Arabic word "sibech", the view over the oranges.
  • Finally, the school of fishermen: the derivation of the word as a diminutive of cebiche "cebo" or any food used as bait for fishing. Fishermen Arabs and later Europeans were prepared to eat the bait if they had a fruitless fishing, and they used to "cook" the bait with its lemon.
There is another reference to
cebo, or the bait: it was the "carnada" or the bait that fishermen were using the home on the coast negra peruana. When the master of the boat said it was time to eat, shared "the bait caught" (ie small fish to use as bait, the cebo), which was raw and had, say, a "strong odor" , then the fishermen added lemon to cook, aji, garlic, onions and salt to make it more enjoyable.

And after this walk in the world of the Peruvian national dish, I can only say:


Aprovecho Good! (Enjoy)

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Plato Dvd Ripper Licence Number

L'anima della cucina ligure: dalla maggiorana al preboggiòn

In another post, I described what I think of the dishes "typical" dishes and "traditional" cuisine and food as these are an expression of the evolution of a people.

Ligurian cuisine, since ancient times, is anything but a poor kitchen, common place that we drag behind a long time.

Besides, just think of just the history of Genoa, and then a large part of Liguria, bound by it, to realize that the board could not be influenced by political developments and commercial capital.

Ingredients "foreign" and oriental spices come very early in the history of Ligurian cuisine, alongside the development of the Genoese colonies in buona parte del mondo allora conosciuto.

Dal Mar Nero, che veniva chiamato il "Lago genovese", fino al Nord Europa, Genova è riuscita ad intrecciare una fitta rete commerciale e finanziaria fin dall'epoca della prima crociata, diventando centro di scambio per merci, da e per tutto l'occidente ed il nord.

Le abitudini alimentari dei genovesi, cambiarono in fretta in quel periodo, con l'acquisizione delle nuove tecniche di conservazione alimentare apprese in oriente e sfruttate poi sia per il mercato interno, quando d'inverno gli approvvigionamenti via mare erano praticamente fermi, che per quello "esterno", ovvero il mercato centro-settentrionale europeo, giocando un ruolo decisivo sull'andamento prices in different cyclical famines that struck Europe.

Unlike Venice, projected only to the East, Genoa took care of its relations with the whole western Mediterranean basin, from Granada to Castile to Lisbon and beyond, in the markets and ports in French, English and Dutch . But Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, all markets were vital to Genoa and its "barges" commercial, like the colonies on the Black Sea and the Near East (see photo - Galata Tower in the district "Genovese" in Istanbul).

From this dominant position in the European era, and his skills in the preservation and processing of raw materials, derive the majority dei piatti tardo-medioevali genovesi: pasta, ripieni, salse, spezie, formaggi freschi, uova, verdure, semi oleosi (noci, pinoli o mandorle, derivate anch'esse dal medio oriente).

Poca carne o pesce freschi, la liguria non è terra da pascolo ed il mare veniva utilizzato per commerciare più che per pescare (rendeva di più essere mercante che pescatore ovviamente).
Al pesce azzurro, plebeo, quando possibile si preferiva storione e caviale. Alla semplice carne abbrustolita, all'epoca massima espressione di ricchezza nel nord europa, si prediligevano già piatti elaborati, paste ripiene, dolci.

Ma esiste un filo d'unione che parte dalla cucina pre-coloniale medioevale ed arriva fino a quella moderna, dove il pomodoro è entrato di forza nella cucina novecentesca ligure: le erbe aromatiche.


Così come l'aji è il carattere della cucina peruana, le erbe lo sono di quella ligure, e sono elemento fondamentale ed indispensabile nella maggioranza delle preparazioni dei nostri piatti.

Se qualcosa di "tipico" vogliamo indicare nella nostra cucina, modellata da così tanti influssi stranieri, allora possiamo dire che è proprio il "gusto" della maggiorana, della salvia, del timo, del rosmarino, dell'alloro, che ritroviamo in quasi tutte le ricette, antiche e moderne, della nostra regione (il basilico, base del pesto, Current regional flag, will come much later in our kitchen).

A typical element, survived until a few years ago, and today more rare to enjoy, is the Preboggiòn, which simultaneously can be considered flat when worn alone or when it is the basic ingredient in preparing other dishes (eg the filling of pansoti).

It 's a combination of herbs whose collection has always been done a bit' all over Liguria, and not only gaining from area to area but different names. In the western herbs are defined, in other regions, especially in Central Italy are known as watercress. The herbs that make up This mix will vary from valley to valley, depending on the season.

Today it is more difficult to find these herbs in a traditional way because they are increasingly rare people able to recognize them.

The herbs most commonly collected are as follows: talaegua (Reichard picroides ) scixerbua (Sonchus oleraceus ) bell'ommo ( Urospermum dalechampli ), tooth de Can ( Taraxacum officinalis); borraxe ( borage officinalis); Ortigia ( dioica), burnet (Sanguisorba minor ) teeth de cuniggio ( Hyoseris radiata); papàvau (Papaver roeas ) ge ( chard).

The grass is the most popular talaegua: this is more and better the preboggiòn.

This mixture of herbs is simply boiled and dressed with oil and lemon to accompany delicious flat loaves of bread, or is used for the filling of the most famous pansoti.

Ingredients
preboggion 2 kg, 1 / 2 potato, 3 cloves of garlic, salt, oil, grain.



Preparation

preboggiòn Wash and remove stems. Place the potatoes in boiling, peeled and chopped, then add the herbs. After 10 minutes, drain, squeeze and move it all in a pan with oil, garlic cloves and a pinch of salt, if desired, add 2 anchovy fillets and a handful of parmesan cheese. Serve with cheeses and savory pancakes.