Pinole. A Gift for Christmas
Happy Christmas to all and especially to all those who have commented on my blog this year. Just yesterday Sra Cruz Reyes Ramos sent me this wonderful story about pinole…
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Caption: These are Middle Stone Age food processing tools recovered from the Ngalue cave site, Mozambique. Credit: Grady Semmens, University of Calgary Usage Restrictions: None It used to be the…
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From Ken Albala Rachel, You’re right about immediate impact, it takes several centuries for New World plants to really transform Europe – eventually they do. But more interesting is the…
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