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Today is (delicious!) Baklava Day.
Today's so-called exotic dish suggestion from the 365 Foreign Dishes, published in 1908, is what they call Polish Rice Pudding, which sounds to me like a normal rice pudding that includes raisins and currants and has lemon peel and nutmeg and vanilla; but then they suggest a wonderful-sounding lemon sauce for it.