Torta negra is Argentina’s Christmas cake — a dense, dark fruit cake made from dried fruits soaked in rum or brandy, mixed with spices, and baked into a long-keeping loaf. It arrived in Argentina through the waves of European immigration that shaped the country’s food culture from the mid-nineteenth century onward. British settlers brought their […]

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Hokey pokey is honeycomb toffee — sugar and golden syrup cooked to hard crack stage, then baking soda stirred in at the last moment. The baking soda reacts with the hot sugar syrup, releasing carbon dioxide that aerates the mixture instantly, creating thousands of small bubbles that set as the candy cools into a rigid, […]

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