All Mysteries — Meal Mysteries

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#033 Easy

At four in the morning, a pot that’s been simmering since yesterday exhales a perfume of charred ginger, star…

#032 Medium

On the Great Plain, where the horizon is a flat line and the wind carries the scent of paprika fields, a cauld…

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#031 Medium

On a hillside where pimento wood burns slow and sweet, a cook lifts the lid of a steel drum cut in half. Smoke…

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#030 Easy

In a restaurant kitchen in the northeast of Italy, a cook dips ladyfingers into espresso with the speed and pr…

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#029 Medium

In a hawker center where ceiling fans spin lazily above a dozen competing stalls, a bowl arrives trailing a cl…

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#028 Hard

In a kitchen where three generations of women work side by side, corn dough is spread on husks with the back o…

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#027 Medium

Deep underground, where the air tastes like tin and daylight is a memory, a miner unwraps a parcel from a clot…

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#026 Medium

A stone bowl arrives at the table so hot it’s still crackling. Inside, a painter’s palette of vegetables is ar…