A Historian’s Take on Food and Food Politics
Muleteers were not people I’d thought about much until a few years ago. Yet 14,000 mules worked the silver mines in the eighteenth century in Guanajuato where I now live. That at least was the estimate of Henry George Ward in his book Mexico in 1827. 14,000 mules is a lot of mules. Some were [...]
Read: If you were a muleteer…pinole and other roasted powders
Which came first, bread or beer? The very possibility that we brewed beer before we baked bread sounds–well–it sounds sexy. How titillating to think that people rushed to make something intoxicating. How mind bending to think that farming was all in aid of a bit of tipple. When I first heard the idea, I was [...]
Not Mexican but part of the great sprawling milky-substitute family, often known in Mexico as horchata. This one is from Sicily. This packet of sugar mixed with ground almonds makes a quite lovely almond drink (milk). It comes from Sicily (thanks Kay). And Sicily, of course, is the repository of many different stages of food [...]
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