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Diving Into the Ingredients That Make Us: Eggplant

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Words and photos by Matt Dursum 🍆 The eggplant. Everyone’s favorite sophomoric emoji and a staple for many people, eggplants are special fruits that are treated as vegetables—they are seed carrying flower babies after all. It’s hard to travel anywhere without eating them and their role as a nutritious flavor absorber has made them the go-to for cooks around the world. History of the Purple Fruit Nightshades, of which the common eggplant, potatoes, and tomatoes…

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Best Meals From One Year in Latin America: Mexico

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Words and photos by Matt Dursum A year ago, my girlfriend and I packed away a week’s worth of clothing, our computers, some electronics and gear, and jumped on a plane to Mexico. Our goal was simple. We were going to work remotely while living in Latin America. We are proud to say it’s been working.  One year in and all we can talk about is food. The cuisine we ate in Mexico and South…

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Diving Into the Ingredients That Make Us: Corn

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Photography by Samantha Demangate Words by Matt Dursum The Columbian Exchange. One of the most impactful outcomes of colonialism, mercantilism, and our universal love of things that taste good. With it, Europe gained potatoes, tobacco, and tomatoes. The Americas got sugarcane, cattle, and sadly, a ton of horrible diseases. In North America, particularly in Mexico, one impactful ingredient was and remains a sacred source of nutrients and energy and object of veneration. Of course, I’m…

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Diving Into The Ingredients That Make Us: Garlic

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Words and photos by Matt Dursum “I shall cut off her head and fill her mouth with garlic, and I shall drive a stake through her body.” Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the timeless bedtime storybook my mom used to read me as a child. How could anything other than an undead Nosferatu be repulsed by garlic? For this week’s article on the ingredients that make us, I’m going into the myths and facts of this beautiful…

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Diving Into the Ingredients That Make Us: The Bay Leaf

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Words and photos by Matt Dursum When I moved to California in my late teens, I developed one of my first olfactory memories while hiking in the cool canyons of Santa Barbara. I kept smelling a pleasant fragrance. I narrowed it down to one plant, picked a leaf, and sniffed a fragrance that reminded me of the synthetic purple markers I used as a kid. What I found was a California Bay Laurel, an evergreen…

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