This week, Nick makes empanadas de pino horneados, or baked beef empanadas, from Isabel Allende's wonderful novel Daughter of Fortune. This episode has a bit of everything: fun facts about empanadas and pastry hacks that will give you flakier and crisper pastry.

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Sources:

“Using Alcohol in Pie Dough”. Cook’s Illustrated, n.d.

https://www.cooksillustrated.com/how_tos/5680-using-alcohol-in-pie-dough

Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Isabel Allende". Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Mar. 2022

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Isabel-Allende

“La empanada, sabor único de la tradición chilena.” Chile Travel, 28 Aug. 2021

https://www.chile.travel/en/uncategorized/la-empanada-sabor-unico-de-la-tradicion-chilena/

Jaron. “Minced Meat Vs Ground Meat – What’s The Difference?” Foodsguy Blog.

https://foodsguy.com/minced-meat-vs-ground-meat/

Ian Lloyd Neubauer. “The hunt for Chile’s best empanada.” BBC Travel, 1 Dec. 2016.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20161118-the-hunt-for-chiles-best-empanada

Naomi Tomky. “Meet the Empanadas of Latin America.” Serious Eats, 10 Aug 2018.

https://www.seriouseats.com/types-of-empanadas-saltenas-corn-flour-plantain-viento-latin-american-food

Florence Fabricant. “For Chileans, Passion Translates to Empanadas.” New York Times, 14 April 2009.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/dining/15empa.html

Recipes that inspired my empanadas de pino:

Gloria Apara. “Chilean Baked Beef Empanadas.” Nomadic Chica Blog, 9 Feb. 2020.

https://www.nomadicchica.com/chilean-baked-beef-empanadas-empanadas-de-pino-horneadas/

In this week's episode, we are celebrating nearly 100 years of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf by making a pastry from the book that's enjoyed by both the characters and podcasters alike -- chocolate eclairs! Though they're quite the demanding and time-consuming pastry, the eclair makes a perfect little sweet with tea! We hope you enjoy listening to this week's episode as much as we enjoyed eating chocolate eclairs (which was a lot).

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Sources:

On Lady Bruton's lunch:

Hoff, Molly. “A Feast of Words in ‘Mrs. Dalloway.’” Woolf Studies Annual, vol. 1, 1995, pp. 89–105, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24906319. Accessed 17 May 2022.

The recipe that inspired our eclairs:

"Chocolate Eclairs" by Gale Gand for Food Network

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/chocolate-eclairs-recipe-1937901

Hope y'all are thirsty! We got just what you need for these warmer May days: it's the mint julep from The Great Gatsby. Chances are you've read this one before, and it's likely that you weren't of legal drinking age when you last read it. But we are here to tell you about the history of the mint julep and why Nick thinks that it's such a big deal that Fitzgerald features it in one of the novel's climactic scenes.

Let us know what you think about the mint julep in Gatsby and find the recipe on our Instagram account @literallydelishpod.

If you'd like to recommend a dish or drink for us to make in a future episode, let us know by sending an email to literallydelishpod@gmail.com. We look forward to reading your suggestions!

Sources:

Brian Freedman - Untangling the Complex History of One of America's Most Popular Cocktails—The Mint Julep, Food and Wine, April 2022.

https://www.foodandwine.com/cocktails-spirits/history-of-mint-julep

Jason Diamond - Where Daisy Buchanan Lived, The Paris Review, Dec. 2012.

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/12/25/where-daisy-buchanan-lived/

Kate Dingwall - What are “Bottled-in-Bond” Spirits and Why Should I Care?, Wine Enthusiast.

https://www.winemag.com/2019/10/15/what-is-bottled-in-bond/

Matt Frassica - Romantic nostalgia of 'Gatsby' inspired by Louisville, The Louisville Courier-Journal,

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/05/10/gatsby-fitzgerald-louisville/2151741/

Rebecca Toy - A Brief History of the Mint Julep, From Daily Medicine to an Elite Race Icon, Wine Enthusiast.

https://www.winemag.com/2021/04/27/mint-julep-history-kentucky-derby/

Hi, food nerds! We hope you enjoy this week's episode where Nick makes Omani food from Jokha Alharthi's 2010 novel (published in English in 2018) Celestial Bodies. The dishes this week include Omani halwa (jelly sweets), khubz ragtag (flatbread with honey and butter), chicken broth, and qahwa (coffee). Nick also shares a little bit from his research on Zanzibar, Oman, and the history of slavery and abolition in the Al Busaidi empire around the Indian Ocean.

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Sources:

For information on slavery in East Africa:

Alpers, E. (2003). Flight to freedom: Escape from slavery among bonded africans in the Indian Ocean world, c.1750–1962. Slavery and Abolition, 24(2), 51-68, DOI: 10.1080/01440390308559155

For information about Oman post-1975:

Hirji, Z. (2007). Relating Muscat to Mombasa: Spatial tropes in the kinship narratives of an extended family network in Oman. Anthropology of the Middle East, 2(1), 55-69.

For information on global dates markets and their impact on slavery in Oman:

Hopper, M. S. (2013). Slaves of one master: Globalization and the African diaspora in Arabia in the age of empire. In R. Harms, B.K Freamon, & D.W. Blight (Eds.), Indian Ocean slavery in the age of abolition (pp. 223-240). Yale University Press.

For information about the history of slavery in Omani and Zanzibari literature:

O’Dell, E. J. (2020). Yesterday is not gone: Memories of slavery in Zanzibar and Oman in memoirs, fiction, and film. Journal of Global Slavery, 5, 357-401.

Recipes:

Halwa - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noXT3er74dU

Khubz Ragag - https://www.saveur.com/omani-egg-cheese-sandwich-recipe/

Better late than never, here is this week's episode. Nick seriously won't shut up about this award winning book (or how well his roast chicken came out). This week, Nick sleuths out a recipe and then draws inspiration from Mastering the Art of French Cooking, a classic cookbook written, in part, by Julia Childe. We hope you enjoy this episode and that you keep listening!

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Sources:

Sean Abbot's interview with the author may be found appendix in the Harper Collins edition, 2001.

https://www.amazon.com/Canto-Harper-Perennial-Modern-Classics-ebook/dp/B000FC10S4/ref=sr11?crid=1F8UJUVFS6ZCH&keywords=bel+canto+ann+patchett&qid=1651019833&sprefix=bel+canto%2Caps%2C75&sr=8-1

Ann Patchett's blurb about eggplant was found in The Book Club Cookbook by Judy Gelman and Vicky Levy Krupp, 2012.

https://www.amazon.com/Book-Club-Cookbook-Revised-FavoriteBooks/dp/1585429244/ref=sr12?crid=1FK1AVG90IBO&keywords=book+club+cookbook&qid=1651019918&sprefix=book+club+cookbook%2Caps%2C70&sr=8-2

For information on ratatouille, see Michela Cecchi's June 2021 post called "The True Story of French Ratatouille" in Gamberorossointernational.com

https://www.gamberorossointernational.com/news/food-news/the-true-story-of-french-ratatouille/

For information on eggplants bitterness, see Jo Harrison's post called "What Makes Eggplants Bitter (and How to Fix It) in Plantfoodathome.com

https://www.plantfoodathome.com/what-makes-eggplants-bitter/

In this week's episode, Nick talks House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III and gets nerdy about some crispy rice. We also make khorest bademjan from a recipe courtesy of a friend of the author that you can find in the Book Club Cookbook by Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp. We hope you enjoy and that you keep listening to Literally Delicious!

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Sources

Information about Social Class in Iran:

"Social Class" - Helen Chapin Metz, ed. Iran: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1987. http://countrystudies.us/iran/48.htm

Information about Red Pistachios:

"Remember Red Pistachios? Here's What Happened to Them" - Alison Spiegel Huffington Post, Jan 30 2015.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-are-red-pistachiosn6570944

Recipes

Khorest Bademjan - From The Book Club Cookbook by Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy Krupp, New York: Penguin, 2012, pp. 187-189.

Tahdig - "What is Tahdig (Persian Rice)? How to Cook Persian Tahdig at Home" Aug 16 2021.

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/what-is-tahdig-persian-rice-how-to-cook-persian-tahdig-at-home

Happy Tuesday, everyone! Nick has been looking forward to making these recipes for awhile! This week, we present a trio of Greek diner dishes, including pastitsio, tzatziki, and rizogalo (rice pudding). We hope you enjoy these diner favorites at home and that you read the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides.

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Sources:

"The Kaffenion Connection: How the Greek Diner Evolved" - Edward Lewine - The New York Times, 14 April 1996

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/14/nyregion/the-kaffenion-connection-how-the-greek-diner-evolved.html

"The Health Benefits of Garlic" - Cleveland Clinic

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/6-surprising-ways-garlic-boosts-your-health/

"The Benefits of Yogurt" - Elaine Magee - WebMD

https://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/benefits-yogurt

Recipes:

Pastitsio:

https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/pastitsio

Rizogalo:

https://www.thespruceeats.com/greek-rice-pudding-1706092

The BIG episode is here, food nerds! In this extra long episode, Nick makes SIX recipes from Nora Ephron's 1983, semi-autobiographical novel, Heartburn. There's so much cooking in this episode that you might worry that Nick won't have enough time to be nerdy. But, fear not. Nick deep dives the origins of "back-of-the-box" recipes and argues for their importance to American food culture.

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Test Kitchen Recipes:

Betty Crocker Potatoes Anna Recipe:

https://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/potatoes-anna/3907ec7c-3947-43ed-a0ad-f24ae1249ab8

Campbell's Ultimate Slow-Cooked Pot Roast Recipe:

https://www.campbells.com/recipes/ultimate-slow-cooked-pot-roast/

Kraft Heinz Test Kitchen's Recipe for Grey Poupon Red Wine Vinaigrette:

https://www.myfoodandfamily.com/recipe/055034/grey-poupon-red-wine-vinaigrette

Sources:

Emily Contois Blog on the Evolution of the "Back-of-the-box" recipe

https://emilycontois.com/2012/10/04/curating-the-history-of-american-convenience-cuisine/

Hannah Selinger for Eater, June 2020: "Just Cook From the Back of the Box"

https://www.eater.com/2020/6/12/21286383/back-of-the-box-recipes-history-pantry-cooking-baking

Kate Young for The Guardian, Sep. 2017: "Novel recipes: linguine alla cecca from Heartburn by Nora Ephron"

https://www.theguardian.com/books/little-library-cafe/2017/sep/29/novel-recipes-linguine-alla-cecca-from-heartburn-by-nora-ephron

Kelsey Lawrence for Vice, Oct. 2018: "How Back-of-the-Box Recipes Became Beloved Comfort Foods for So Many Americans"

https://www.vice.com/en/article/mbd5xx/how-back-of-the-box-recipes-became-beloved-comfort-foods-for-so-many-americans

Monte Matthews on the Chewing the Fat blog: "Lillian Hellman's Pot Roast"

https://chewingthefat.us.com/2011/11/lillian-hellmanns-pot-roast.html