Grinding Chocolate by Hand
Following up on an earlier post about turning cacao beans into chocolate, Lesley Téllez provides a timely lesson on what grinding chocolate on the metate (grindstone) is actually like. Pain…
Read moreMore on thin pastry trail. Pootarekulu from Andhra, India. Updated.
Ready for more on the thin pastry sheet trail that we’ve been discussing on this blog in the last couple of weeks. Ammini Ramachandran sent a fascinating video of…
Read moreHunger, Bread, Free Trade, and the Moral Consumer
Samuel Palmer, Gleaning for Wheat under a Harvest Moon, 1833 from Feasts and Festivals Sometimes things just come together. Last week I spent a good bit of time at a…
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