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Ajiaco is Bogotá's signature dish, the Andean chicken soup the whole capital eats on cold Sunday afternoons in the cool…
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Ajiaco is Bogotá's signature dish, the Andean chicken soup the whole capital eats on cold Sunday afternoons in the cool…

Whole-wheat (atta) flour is mixed with salt and just enough warm water to make a soft dough; rests for 20 minutes

Alur chop (alu meaning potato, chop being a Bengali loan-word for a fried cutlet, inherited from the British "chop") is…

The Bahamas' Saturday-morning hangover cure, the breakfast bowl that arrives steaming in fish shacks and family kitchens…

A dark, brown-roux-thickened stew that sits closer to Louisiana gumbo than to Jamaican brown stew chicken, a tell of how…

The Burmese take on the South Asian samosa, with a thinner, crisper pastry and a milder filling than its Indian cousin

The California burrito was invented in San Diego in the 1980s, when local taquerias started slipping French fries inside…

The Chilean Sunday-lunch one-pot, the soup-stew that turns up on every kitchen table from Santiago to Patagonia

Chicken thighs (or lamb) are browned, onions and tomato cooked down with garlic and a single whole chilli, then the meat…

Colombian empanadas are deep-fried half-moons in a vivid yellow-corn casing, sold by the dozen at every street stall in Bogotá and Medellín

Gado-gado is the Indonesian composed salad with peanut sauce, a plate of vegetables (raw and lightly-blanched), tofu…

Gheymeh is the Persian split-pea-and-dried-lime stew, a sour-savoury Persian classic crowned with a heap of…

A deep, brick-yellow gravy stained with turmeric and allspice (called pimento in Jamaica, confusingly, nothing to do…

Kachalou pakora are Afghan-style battered potato slices, fried crisp and dusted with chaat masala while they are still hot from the oil

Beef strips are marinated briefly in soy and aji amarillo paste

"Achari" means "of pickle", the dish is built around Indian-style pickles (achaar) as a flavouring agent rather than a condiment