Word: okra
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...Marie Mondesir’s Nouvelle Lune Cuisine, the multi-layered flavors of crisp, fried plantains and hearty, Creole stews tell a tale of colonization in Haiti even as they reward the tongue. Tender okra evokes West Africa, finely-sliced capsicum introduces the produce of the Americas and sautéed onions, imported to Haiti on the ships of European merchant-adventurers, are a token of the Old World. Using recipes and techniques refined by a long family tradition, Mondesir, a native of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, proudly continues the rich culinary traditions of her island...
...Diyit bamya, the dish that garnered the most praise back when Emam cooked only for his friends, is a meltingly tender stew of braised veal with okra, tomato and coriander. The samak malfouf, snapper stuffed with fresh herbs and cooked in grape leaves, was succulent, flavorful and baked to perfection...
...plate divided into sections, thalis are a traditional Indian meal comprised of vegetable curries, a lentil soup, Indian pickles, flat bread, a dessert and a crispy popadam. My Sindhi special featured a delicate green curry of walnut-sized eggplants flavored with cardamom, a spicy red concoction of chili and okra, and dry roasted pumpkin with ginger and cumin. The dessert was gulab jamun, two deep-fried balls of milk dough soaked in syrup. I finished off my meal with lassi, a frothy, sweetened yogurt drink flavored with rose petals. As I got up to pay the bill, I noticed that...
...peers out of a small pond blowing on a long pipe which gently curves upward; it is suspended without the use of his hands, instead propped up at its wider end by a pole that extends from the water. Around the faded, sepia-like tones of the photograph rise okra-colored stalks of grass from the marsh; the glow of the sun can be faintly seen from the horizon in the distance. The image maintains a surreal and ethereal levity, and the inaudible music of the pipe calls out to us as might the Islamic call to prayer...
...This is home--you know what I mean? This is the place, and Diane was the soul of it," says David Morton, a police officer. Morton and thousands of others are part of a family of regulars who come for grits and home fries, catfish and okra, smothered chicken and peach cobbler. Je's after Sunday Mass is a sight, Newark all dressed up in finery and extended families marching straight from the hallelujah to the harvest...