More ur-food toasted flours

Soon I want to introduce another of these toasted ground ur-foods that is still used in parts Europe, the Caribbean and South America. But for now, from readers, toasted ground…

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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…

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If 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. …

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