Truly Mexican

Now the move from Mexico City to Austin, Texas is largely behind me and there’s a whole month before the move back, I’ve had time to browse Roberto Santibañez’s Truly…

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Just eleven plants out of thirty thousand

Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven – corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats –…

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Brain and Gut

What’s old is new again.  Physicians and philosophers in Ancient Greece and Rome (and the rest of the Ancient World) believed that what you ate and how you digested it…

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