Chef Takumi
Fresh Wheat-Gluten Dengaku (生麩田楽, Nama-fu Dengaku)
Nama-fu dengaku is softer than it looks: fresh wheat gluten browned gently, brushed with sweet aka-miso, and served in small skewers that taste of Kyoto restraint.
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Chef Graziella
Friarielli alla Napoletana
The bitter greens of Naples, sautéed with garlic and dried chili until the edges char and the stems surrender. Four ingredients. Absolute honesty.
Chef Graziella
Il Friggione Bolognese
The humblest contorno of Bologna, where white onions and tomatoes melt together over low heat until they become something almost indistinguishable from each other, sweet and yielding.
Chef Lupita
Frijol Negro con Chaya Yucateco
Yucatan's everyday pot of black beans simmered with chaya, epazote, and a whole unsplit habanero, finished with lard bloomed in onion and garlic at the very end.
Chef Lupita
Stewed Black Beans (Frijoles a la Veracruzana)
Veracruz's black bean pot from the Gulf lowlands, simmered with epazote, finished in manteca with jitomate and chile chipotle meco, and served thick enough to hold a spoon.
Chef Lupita
Frijoles Ayocotes Purépechas Guisados
Michoacán's P'urhépecha ayocotes, grown beside corn in the milpa, cooked in a clay olla, then guisados in pork lard with Cherán K'eri style chilke rojo and cooked quelites.
Chef Lupita
Frijoles Bayos de la Olla Guanajuatenses con Epazote
Guanajuato's bayo beans cooked low in a clay olla with manteca de cerdo, epazote, xoconostle, and a careful touch of chilcuague from the Sierra Gorda.
Chef Lupita
Frijoles Borrachos Norteños
The drunken bean pot of northern Mexico. Pintos simmered with tocino and chorizo, finished with a full bottle of Mexican lager that thickens the broth and rounds the salt of the meat. The pot that sits next to every carne asada from Monterrey to Hermosillo.
Chef Lupita
Frijoles Charros del Bajío con Xoconostle
Guanajuato and Querétaro's Bajío charro pot, beige bayo beans with tocino, chorizo, xoconostle, and a pinch of chilcuague, brothy enough for the clay cazuela and sober enough to leave the beer out.
Chef Lupita
Frijoles Charros Norteños
The brothy bean pot of Mexico's north, built on pintos, bacon, chorizo, ham, and tomato, simmered until the broth turns the color of brick dust and served alongside every carne asada from Hermosillo to Saltillo.
Chef Lupita
Frijoles Chinos Estilo Guanajuato
Guanajuato's Bajio refried bayos, worked in manteca de cerdo until the beans turn satin-smooth and pull from the clay cazuela, with xoconostle acid and the quiet bite of chilcuague.
Chef Lupita
Frijoles Colados Oaxaqueños
Valles Centrales black beans, simmered with hoja de aguacate, strained until satin-smooth, then fried in asiento or pork lard so they spread cleanly across memelas, tlayudas, and enfrijoladas.
Chef Lupita
Frijoles con Carne Oreada Cuajinicuilapense
Guerrero Costa Chica black beans simmered with carne oreada, epazote, hoja de aguacate, and chile costeño, the Afro-Mexican preserved-meat pot Cuajinicuilapa puts on the Sunday table.
Chef Lupita
Frijoles con Chepil
Oaxacan black beans simmered slow with chepil, the wild legume herb that grows along the milpas of the Sierra Sur, finished with lard and epazote and eaten from clay bowls with warm corn tortillas.
Chef Lupita
Black Beans with Chipilin (Frijoles con Chipilin)
Chiapas black beans finished with fresh chipilin, onion, garlic, and manteca de cerdo, a budget pot with green fragrance in the broth and the plain authority of a southern home kitchen.
Chef Lupita
Frijoles Costeños con Epazote
Guerrero's Costa Chica black beans, simmered until thick and brothy with epazote, hoja de aguacate, onion, garlic, and manteca de cerdo.
Chef Lupita
Frijoles de la Olla con Epazote
Ciudad de Mexico's everyday bean pot from the Valle de Mexico: frijol bayo simmered in clay with white onion, garlic, epazote, and a small spoon of manteca.
Chef Lupita
Frijoles de la Olla con Hoja de Aguacate
Oaxaca's foundational pot of small black beans simmered with toasted avocado leaf, lard, and garlic. Not epazote, not bay leaf. Hoja de aguacate, the herb that defines the Oaxacan bean pot.
Chef Lupita
Frijoles de la Olla del Occidente
Jalisco's everyday pot of peruano or flor de mayo beans, cooked slowly in clay with onion, epazote, and manteca until the broth turns clear, reddish, and useful.
Chef Lupita
Frijoles Negros de Tabasco
Tabasco's everyday black bean pot, loose and brothy, scented with epazote and finished at the table with radish, cilantro, lime, and the tiny green bite of chile amashito.
Chef Lupita
Frijoles Negros Oaxaqueños con Hojas de Aguacate
Oaxaca's Costa Chica black beans, slow-simmered with toasted hojas de aguacate, epazote, chile costeño, and manteca de cerdo until the broth turns dark, fragrant, and serious.
Chef Lupita
Frijoles Puercos Hidrocálidos
Aguascalientes bayos refried in manteca with chorizo de Calvillo, xoconostle, chilcuague, jalapeños en escabeche, and queso ranchero. The hidrocálido fiesta bean, not the Sinaloan one.
Chef Lupita
Frijoles P'urhépechas de Olla con Epazote
Michoacán's Meseta P'urhépecha bean pot, black or pinto beans cooked low in clay with epazote, onion, salt, and a spoon of manteca until the broth turns dark and clean.
Chef Lupita
Chiapas Refried Black Beans (Frijoles Refritos Chiapanecos)
Chiapas' everyday black beans, cooked with epazote and refried in manteca de cerdo until glossy, dense, and ready for cochito horneado, thick corn tortillas, and a table that knows the value of fat.
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