Alcuscuz de maiz (Couscous of corn) in early nineteenth-century Mexico
You know, you read in cookbooks that this or that is the real or the best or the most authentic recipe for a certain dish. Then the more you poke…
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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…
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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