How do we classify cuisines?
O.K I am with the big units, but in to use the language analogy to be part of the language family, a word or concept has to be recognisable as…
Read moreQuiz question (those in Mexico need not answer)
Busy today, so here’s a quick puzzle for you. What is this gadet that middle class Mexican ladies carry in their purses? Indispensable when dining. And note that cute angel…
Read moreSmut fungi. More on huitlacoche from The Scientist Gardener
A series of devastating wheat smut outbreaks caused hundreds of combine fires [at the end of the nineteenth century] as the vehicles stirred up massive clouds of oily smut spores,…
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