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Article: PLUCK O' THE irish
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- Vegetarian Times
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- March 1, 2005
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A dash of caraway jazzes up soda bread, sweets, veggies, even grilled cheese sandwiches
No St. Patrick's Day spread would be complete without a celebratory soda bread, and no true Irish soda bread would be complete without caraway seeds. The tradition got started because "adding caraway to ordinary breads was an easy and inexpensive way to tart them up, so to speak-to make them special for parties and festivals," explains Tim Alien, author of The Ballymaloe Bread Book and co-owner of the Ballymaloe Cookery School in County Cork, Ireland.
But the Emerald Isle does not stake sole claim to these small, striated "seeds" (botanically speaking, they're actually a fruit). Throughout the United ...