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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…
makes a sancocho that hews close to tradition