Why White Bread and Maize Were/Are Preferred (Again)

Lockwood Kipling, Rudyard’s father and head art teacher at the Sir Jamsetje Jeejeboy College of Art in Bombay, founded by the epynonymous Indian benefactor, reflects on the Indian peasant diet.…

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Gone Missing: 28,000 Tons of Maize in Mexico

Yesterday an extraordinary half page advertisement appeared in Mexico City newspapers.  This year 28 thousand tons of maize have been stolen from trucks or railroad cars.  That’s enough maize to…

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From grim to chic: tea kettle broth

A couple of posts back I talked about my mother’s pity for those who had to subsist on tea kettle broth or, to give it another of its names, toast…

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