Mina (the Inquisition's most threatening Jewish dish) and a medieval haggadot exhibit made me change my mind. I wasn't planning to post today, just relaxing after all of yesterday's potchke'ing (to potchke - to do a lot of work) in the kitchen, but Janet Amateau's Sephardic cooking post on making the yummy ubiquitous Sephardic world's matza/meat dish - "mina" - and her visit to the Haggadah exhibit in Barcelona (held, interestingly, in what was the Inquisition building there) changed my mind. Here are some interesting insights in the article (which also leads to the yummy recipe):"On the Peninsula, the Spanish king revised and reintroduced centuries-old food laws that reflected the Inquisition’s intricate knowledge of Jewish dietary laws, work laws, and even cultural preferences in taste. Using all that, they targeted one specific food: the meat pie." Janet goes on to explain in detail the way the laws indicated that this dish was really Jewish and how it had to be changed! Fascinating!"Violations of any one of these steps were punished with astronomical fines (think king’s ransom), banishment, or both.""Let me spell it out for you: Kosher beef, special flour, religious freedom festival. To the Inquisition, mina was the single most threatening Jewish food there was."Read the entire article and follow the pointer to the recipe. Besides being delicious, it will use up some matzoh! http://sephardicfood.com/…/wheres-the-beef-all-about-mina-…/