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A Dominican Stew That Feeds a Crowd, and Needs One
“One of my greatest moments in my life as a cook,” recalls the chef and food writer Arturo Féliz-Camilo, was a moment when his mother-in-law, his wife’s aunt, and other family were standing around a huge pot. They were preparing sancocho, a complex stew that is one of the Dominican Republic’s unofficial national dishes. “They ask me, ‘Something’s missing. We don’t know what it is,’” he remember…
complex stew, one of the Dominican Republic's unofficial national dishes