Courtesy to the Turks and Afghan introducing the Tandoori oven in northern India, Indian bread enjoys a worldwide popularity today. Bread is favoured in the north because of the drier and cooler climate, and the three main breads that are consumed with any meal are roti, naan and chapati.
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Paella is often served at lunchtime on Sundays and holidays, and is particularly tasty when cooked outdoors over a wood fire. Huge pans of paella are cooked up on the beaches of Southern Spain, catering for masses for hungry holiday-makers in authentic Spanish style.
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The Balti is more Birmingham than Pakistan, a strange hybrid of East meets West cuisine that takes its inspiration from the ancient Moghuls and adapts it to the dynamics of a Midlands city on the wrong side of midnight. Welcome to the bizarre world of British Balti Culture.
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Mercado Xipamanine is a Saturday market on Avenida Robby Brothers in Maputo, Mozambique. This really is a market where you can purchase anything from detergent to traditional spices for cooking, and capulanas (the all purpose traditional wraps worn by women), to Kalashnikov rifles – relics from the war of independence. It’s one of Maputo’s oldest markets, a hustling and bustling outdoor muddle of stalls, and it’s just the place to stock up on your curandeiros – traditional African medicines.
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Lancashire Hot Pot was traditionally eaten by rich and poor and its reputation as one of England’s best traditional lamb recipes is thriving. Farmers would leave a brown earthenware pot of it on the range to simmer gently all day, using the embers of the last night’s fire.
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