Rachel Laudan

Here’s my stab at an answer, or rather a couple of answers.  I’ll concentrate on Europe but I think the same would apply in most places grains are used (except perhaps Africa and Mexico, because maize is a bit different). Answer One. Whole grains are hard on the system. Today we don’t eat many grains [...]

Yesterday an extraordinary half page advertisement appeared in Mexico City newspapers.  This year 28 thousand tons of maize have been stolen from trucks or railroad cars.  That’s enough maize to keep Mexico City in tortillas for a whole month.  And with maize prices at around $280 a ton, it’s enough to keep the robbers in [...]

A couple of posts back I talked about my mother’s pity for those who had to subsist on tea kettle broth or, to give it another of its names, toast water.  It was nothing more than hot water poured over bread, or better, toast that gave the water a  little color.. ” In Devon, Somerset, [...]