All Mysteries — Meal Mysteries

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#048 Medium

In a restaurant where the grill is built into the table and the coals glow like a miniature sunset, a cook kne…

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#047 Medium

In a kitchen where lemongrass is bruised with the back of a knife and galangal is sliced with surgical precisi…

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#046 Easy

In the French Quarter, where jazz drifts through open windows and the humidity wraps around you like a blanket…

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#045 Hard

In an orchard outside a Mediterranean city, a cook tends a wide, shallow pan over a wood fire built from orang…

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#044 Medium

On a Delhi street corner at seven in the morning, a cook drops a disc of dough into a cauldron of oil and it i…

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#043 Easy

In a pub where the wood is dark and the pints are amber, a plate arrives with the unpretentious confidence of…

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#042 Hard

In a dim sum parlor where bamboo steamers are stacked like a skyline, a cart rolls past and a lid is lifted. S…

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#041 Easy

At a street cart that only appears after dark, a cook cracks an egg onto a mound of day-old rice in a screamin…