Bread, beer and agriculture
Last week Onkel Bob posted a long response to my post, Bread first or beer first? A bad question. He made several interesting points but the most important point, to…
Read moreIf you were a muleteer…pinole and other roasted powders
Muleteers were not people I’d thought about much until a few years ago. Yet 14,000 mules worked the silver mines in the eighteenth century in Guanajuato where I now live. …
Read moreUr-food, a glimpse of the past
Here’s a photo of what I think was probably one of the first grain foods. It always sends tingles up my spine. I’ll explain in a day or so when…
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