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Craft

Skill accumulated by hand, and the economics that keep removing it.

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Spätzle

Spätzle are irregular, egg-based pasta noodles with a rough, porous surface, traditionally scraped from a board into boiling salted water.

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A long strip of hand-minced lamb and tail fat, seasoned only with salt and hand-chopped sweet red peppers, grilled over oak coals.
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Ají de gallina

A Peruvian chicken stew with a chili-sofrito base, thickened with milk-soaked bread, cheese, and nuts, served with potatoes, rice, olives, and hard-boiled egg.