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Letter: Mesoamericans perfected this food-bridging recipe

Published 17 January 2024

From Tony Power, Sydney, Australia

Stuart Farrimond, in his look at the science of “food bridging”, seems to have rediscovered the classic Mayan/Aztec dish turkey mole, also familiar as the variant “chocolate chicken”. The peanut bridging ingredient originated in Central America before becoming more widely known (16/23 December 2023, p 70).

Issue no. 3474 published 20 January 2024

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