Muffuletta Sandwich From Central Grocery, NOLA

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The muffuletta consists of one Italian muffuletta bread loaf split horizontally in half and covered with marinated olive salad and layers of capiocola, salami, mortadella, emmental cheese and provolone cheese. And it’s huge.

Central sells the sandwich by the half or the whole and the whole is for sure enough for two people. The olive salad is the key to the sandwich and is made of olives, celery, cauliflower and carrot. Combine all that, mix in seasonings and olive oil and let it sit for a day or more.

More at Muffuletta Sandwich From Central Grocery. Doesn't it make you want to order one and eat it right now? What about a NOLA Muffaletto vs Po-Boy smackdown?

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I’ve noticed that quite a few Grist readers have been struck by our coverage of shockingly high food prices in Inuit communities in Canada’s far north. It’s less a story of life in extreme lands than the culmination of a historical destruction of indigenous peoples’ traditional foodways combined with a conservative government’s unwillingness to help them adapt. Photo by Nick Castonguay.


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Welcome to an opening salvo of sorts for a blog reload. The blog formerly known as Mountainair Farm and Market Garden (discontinued) is now reloaded as Everybody Eats, fed by many related feeds otherwise languishing. The name has been (and still may continue as) a community blog category covering anything food related ~ gardening, growing your own, locavore, eat local, sustainability, recipes, etc. Everybody Eats, the blog, will be more eclectic and extend its range even further to include history, culture, anthropology, symbolism, rituals, festival and celebrations, art, film, literature, opinion ... and of course, my favorite, oddities (example below). It may not fly but let's give it a try. 

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