The long road from cacao to chocolate
Chocolate is an oddity. It’s one of the few native American foodstuffs to make it immediately to the Old World. And now, when anyone who has any pride in their…
Read moreMore 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…
Read moreBread, 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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