Pets de sœurs — “nun’s farts” in direct translation — are Québécois cinnamon-sugar spirals made from leftover pie dough rolled thin, spread with butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon, then rolled up and sliced into rounds before baking. The name is colloquial and old, rooted in the French Canadian habit of naming humble foods with irreverent […]

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Turrón de Doña Pepa is named after Josefa Marmanillo, an enslaved Afro-Peruvian woman known as Doña Pepa, who according to tradition created the recipe in the eighteenth century after being miraculously cured of paralysis through her devotion to Señor de los Milagros — the Lord of Miracles, the most venerated religious image in Peru. In […]

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