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…
Read moreIf 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. …
Read moreSacrifice revisited
Following up several comments, thanks all of you. Burning bones. Bones have to be heated to a high temperature to get them going, but then they burn well. Mammoth bones…
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