
Lamb, barley and cabbage pottage (modern reconstruction)
Lamb shoulder simmered with pearl barley, turnip and leafy cabbage in one pot, a present-day reconstruction built from the animals, grains and vegetables of northern European farming.
1504 records with their sources, across 11 categories.
Smoked salted and dried foods27
Adjacent and excluded13
Condiments and enzymatic seasonings2
Fermented sausage and meat1
Lamb shoulder simmered with pearl barley, turnip and leafy cabbage in one pot, a present-day reconstruction built from the animals, grains and vegetables of northern European farming.

Cape skewers of marinated lamb or mutton threaded with onion, fat or dried fruit and grilled, their marinade balancing curry spice against vinegar or tamarind and something sweet.

Manuk pansuh is Iban chicken cooked slowly inside a fresh bamboo tube with aromatics and leafy greens. The bamboo holds the food and shapes the steamy, fragrant cooking environment; recipes vary by household and locality.

Beef rump takes vinegar, toasted coriander and pepper from the flavour family of tassal, then meets a thermometer-checked braai fire as a fresh-cooked meal.

A Karoo-style festive dish of already cured salt beef simmered with vegetables and aromatics, served with a cream sauce of brined green peppercorns and wholegrain mustard.

Lesego Semenya’s contemporary South African stew combines browned boerewors, chickpeas, tomato, spinach and warm spices.

A coarse South African farmhouse sausage of beef with pork or mutton fat, defined by its coriander seasoning and cooked fresh over coals rather than preserved.

A whole duck braised on onions with pickled plums and Chinese plum sauce until the sauce turns into a thick onion marmalade, a Hakka family dish for Chinese New Year.

Meat salted, slowly cooked in its own fat and kept under a covering of that fat. The fat cap limits air but does not acidify or sterilise, so home confit needs refrigeration or freezing.

Omani celebration dish of spiced meat wrapped in leaves, sewn into palm-fibre bags and cooked in a sealed pit of embers for up to a day.

Ann-Kristine Bongo's four-serving bidus from Sami Siida in Alta is a contemporary, festive reindeer stew simmered with onion, carrots and potatoes.

South African braai parcels of seasoned lamb liver wrapped in caul fat (netvet), which crisps and renders as the filling cooks.

A South African boerie roll puts fully cooked boerewors in a soft bread roll and tops it with warm tomato-and-onion smoor.