Archaic Drinks: Pinole

Pinole gives me shivers up the spine. When I eat it or drink it, I am transported back through the millenia to travelers, warriors, muleteers.
So what is pinole? To make it you toast grains of maize until cooked and gold-brown. Then you grind them on the metate (saddle quern, simple grindstone) [...]

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