Stews

I'll nurse you back to health with colorful vegetables and hearty stews.

You remember Mary's homemade stews, don't you?

My Fijian neighbour Moli, who is half-Chinese and half-East Indian, is a really good cook. I like her stews with sea cucumbers and also her duck curry. Her name means "orange" in the Fijian language. Her husband Leong is a good fisherman. The couple often speaks English with a Fijian accent. They know also Cantonese and Fijian. Moli knows some Hindi.

"Can't we for once have something apart from stew on a Tuesday?" "No, Mary. Tuesday is stews day. We've never known it any other way here, and it's not about to change."

Russian cuisine offers a delightful array of flavors, from hearty stews like solyanka to delicate pastries like pirozhki, showcasing a diverse culinary tradition.

"They'd call my house a common stews and me a careless host, / "And—I would not anger my gentlemen for the sake of a shiftless ghost."