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Magazine of a Storyteller.. articles about world cultures, travel, and recipes with a twist and tango ♪ ♪ ♪. In the United States, the cost of food is continuously rising. It has become very difficult to manage the cost of food within the household budget. I have made it a habit to check out the store weekly newsletters’ sales items to make my shopping list. By planning around meats, vegetables or fruits on sale that week, it is possible to make a nice meal for half the current usual cost. This week, our market had fresh beautiful shrimps for half price. I had to think of a meal made with these beautiful shrimps. Weather being on a cool side, ♪ Over three decades ago, a very good friend served me one of the tastiest chocolate cakes of my then young life. Of course, I asked her for the recipe. She handed me a Hershey’s cocoa box, which had the recipe right there on the back of the box. Don’t be surprised… I ♪ Do you remember my post, the story about my childhood Japanese school lunches? One favorite, savory entrée of our school lunch was the  Japanese style potato salad.  For those of you who are familiar with Japanese bento boxes served at Japanese restaurants, you have seen and tasted the Japanese potato salad served in one of the bento… ♪ The Victoria Sponge, also known as the Victoria Sandwich or Victorian Cake, was named after Queen Victoria (1819~1901), who was known to enjoy a slice of the sponge cake with her afternoon tea. A typical Victoria sponge cake is in two layers, filled with raspberry ♪ Stretching raw dough into paper-thin sheets of filo (or phyllo, Greek for ‘leaf’)  likely originated in the kitchens of the Topkapı Palace (in current Istanbul, Turkey) during the time of the Ottoman Empire, based on Central As*an and Romano-Byzantine techniques. Most probably, Baklava is the earliest dessert using filo, first docu*ented in the 13th century….. SEKANJABIN • سکنجبین • VINEGAR-MINT SYRUP • PERSIAN PICNIC RECIPE ROUND-UP!