Grinding: A Puzzle from 5th Century Greece
I’m always looking out for anything that sheds light on grinding with a saddle quern (or a metate as it would be called in Mexico). Museums often have some dusty…
Read moreMolecular Gastronomy
In response to Os Rosenboim. I doubt that molecular gastronomy will soon pass. Of course it now has so many meanings that talking about it can be confusing. Assume, for…
Read moreVictualling and British History
Don’t you love that word? Victualling Supplying with food. And let’s supply some food for thought. N.A.M Rogers, in his magisterial history of the British Navy in the eighteenth century,…
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