Cooking. What’s Involved and What That Means
I continue with the exploration of cooking as all the operations humans use to turn raw materials into something edible, digestible, and nutritious (while realizing some of my readers may…
Read moreOf Cowboys and Indians and Nineteenth-Century America
What could be more American than gliding along perfect roads at eighty mph, roads so perfect that the dry, rocky terrain slips past like a movie? I’ve been doing a…
Read morePounding and grinding
Grinding versus pounding. Hands up. Who can really say what grist, pottage, meal, flour, gruel, and dozens of other words meant in the past? Well, I can’t either, at least…
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