Word: raisining
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...Quiz: Oslo tastes like a) Lutefisk; b) Reindeer; c) Raisin buns; d) Um, you're weird - a city doesn't taste of anything. There's no absolute right answer, but I'd choose c). Every city has its own flavor, and I can't think about Norway's thousand-year-old, Viking-founded capital (pop. 515,000) without recalling the flavor of its traditional raisin buns - warm puffs of barely cinnamony bread punctuated by sweet morsels of fruit...
...pent Bakeri Did I mention the raisin buns? Inkognito Terrasse...
...premium ingredients. The butter is Plugra, European-style with a high butterfat content and less moisture than standard supermarket fare, and flours come from Vermont and North Carolina. There are corn kernels in the Corn Bread, sprouted wheat berries in the Huron Loaf and plump golden raisins in the Raisin-Pecan Bread. And, as the bakers proudly tell me, everything is made by hand...
...home, don't be surprised, and don't refuse. Hospitality is fundamental to Omani culture. Thesiger's Bedouin guides shared their few dates and salty desert well water with everyone they encountered. Luckily, the fare in the cities is more abundant. Omani delicacies include shrimp, dried fish, lentils and raisin-spiked basmati rice and tender spiced mutton, smoked for three days in an underground pit. But even that tradition is evolving. "We used to wrap the meat in banana leaves," says my host, a young Omani woman. "But now in Muscat we wrap it in foil...
...frustrating. “They all have personalities,” Spaulding says. “You learn that this monkey is really nervous, and that one doesn’t want to come out of her cage and will stretch herself across the cage to grab a raisin without actually coming out.” Of course, care is taken that no monkey is harmed in the raisin-grabbing process. “If it weren’t for the animals we wouldn’t be doing what we are doing,” Santos says...