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Priya, are you okay?

It's nice that the Times of India has a column covering nyc restaurants now.

In that genre the hake roe from Ortiz is the clear winner.

Oh I see, it's a "young market" brand from Real Conservera and Portomar, both of them excellent producers. Spaniards seem to really like their seafood pates (most notably pastel de cabracho) but I never could quite figure them out.

Is it a white label product? meaning, is the la curiosa label just stuck into the box?

Metaphorically, at least.

It is. The other cheeses from Finca Pascualete are also very good. I don't know if I mentioned it here but Il Nocciolo is a barely aged little cheese of the same milk as La Tur. It reminded me of my undying love for underaged Epoisses but it's likely much safer.

And you had a different cut! It's been the first great year for ibérico since 2016, with the pigs around Salamanca eating 10 lbs a day of acorns. This will be the 2025-26 jamón, so buy that if you can.

I noted not to allow takeout of "leftovers" for any members of the baddoof family.

The only person alive who knows the roots of the taco

The other pre-Columbian cuisine. A Spanish idiom from that era - dar gato por liebre.

I found a recipe for roast cat in a 1490s Barcelona cookbook, made me think someone should put together a brief history of cat consumption in Europe.

Either on a sheet pan cooled to 32F or if they must touch ice then flake ice with drainage (think of how fish is displayed at any fishmonger except the greenmarket, basically - diagonally sloped whether on ice or on sheet pans). Correct vacuum packing would be even better (I think the steelhead trout people do that)

I have to admit I haven't looked at the GM fish vendors in a while, but I did so yesterday and today and I can't understand why they store fillets in a pile in a wet tub so they're both exposed to air and sitting in bacteria water. This is the second best way to accelerate spoilage after just leaving them out in the sun.

Especially now that they know their favorite food is made of listeria