Rachel Laudan

Of all the difficult things to turn into food (and most plants and animals are difficult to turn into food), cacao beans and their processing rank way up there. Let’s leave to one side the fermenting and cleaning and just think about the grinding of cacao. Because of the oil content, grinding cacao beans is [...]

www.metmuseum.org I subscribe to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s daily feed, highly recommended. So a couple of days ago I was delighted when the title that popped up was “cider.”   Now I have a long term fascination with cider, above all with the fermented cider that in so much of France, Spain, England, the United [...]

Now grinding seeds is always hard so it’s no wonder that Beatrice resorted to the coffee grinder, especially because she was working with a pestle and mortar, which, even if it is used to shear, is not as effective as a grindstone. Even if you have a grindstone, though, even if you know how to [...]