Edibles & Potables

Edibles & Potables: Traditional Albanian fare at Tak-Fak in Tirana

You’ll have kindly noted a previous missive addressing Albanian cuisine. We returned late last week from the Balkan Mystery Tour 2025, a marvelous (if a tad chilly) sweep through North Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro. All my Europhile buttons were pushed, repeatedly, and I’ve returned to America rested and ready for…well, writing a book it seems. […]

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Edibles & Potables: 31 years of Albanian cuisine (1994 to 2025)

It will have taken a mere three decades for an encore to “Albania 1994,” with the long-awaited 2025 freshening-up orientation about to get underway in Tirana. Judging from the surface appearances to be gleaned from videos at YouTube, the country has changed considerably during my lengthy time away. Of course Thomas Jefferson surely would counsel […]

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Edibles & Potables: Might there be Cincinnati-style chili in the North Macedonian homeland?

Boy, do I know how to pick balmy midwinter holiday destinations. Not exactly, but what we’ll be lacking in sun-drenched beaches, there’ll be compensation in fascination. At first, it seems almost simple: North Macedonia is a mountainous landlocked country in the Balkan region of Southeast Europe, bordering on Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo and Serbia. These are […]

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Edibles & Potables: On tariffs, food costs and rough sailing ahead

“Many people think of California as the garlic capital of the world when, in fact, most of our garlic comes from China” — Southern Living As readers already know, as of Saturday afternoon tariffs have been placed on all imports to the United States from Mexico, Canada and China. Stated simply at Wikipedia, “a tariff […]

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Edibles & Potables: Pie & mash with jellied eel? Don’t mention the “G” word

With advancing age has come a graceful acceptance of my latent Anglophilia. Much of this serenity owes to the creeping realization that proficiency in any of the continental languages is unlikely; consequently, a thwarted expatriate’s aspirations might as well be confined to areas where the Mother Tongue is spoken. There but for chronic linguistic underachievement, […]

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Edibles & Potables: “Once good taste is learned, there is no return”

 (Originally posted on April 26, 2020) Throughout the world sounds one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me the chance to do my very best. Your faithful correspondent was 27 years old when the film Babette’s Feast was released in 1987, and quite frankly, the nuances were elusive at the time. […]

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