Rachel Laudan

This, my friends, is a nice glass of barley water, milky in color, so mild in flavor as to be almost tasteless, a little body on the tongue, and one of the most ancient foods you are ever likely to run in to, the point where archaic drinks find common ground with the aguas frescas.

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Poor chia. When you google it on the web you are assaulted by two kinds of sites.
1. Chia pets. If you’ve never encountered these, they are little toy animals, in the US made of pottery, in Mexico made of nylon stockings stuffed with sawdust, with chia seeds embedded in the toy. Water it and [...]

Agua frescas are one of the great joys of the Mexican kitchen. There’s not a really good English translation. Sometimes you see fruit waters, sometimes you see coolers, but both are awkward renditions.
So what are they? They are lightly sweetened drinks, usually fruit based but not always. They are the standard accompaniment [...]