Migrating with a Millstone around the Neck: Italian-Mexicans

Well, not around the neck but from the village in Italy, on to the ship, off load and reload in railroad cars, and then off load and slog up the…

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How are the mighty metates fallen!

Metates (“simple” grindstones) are one of my passions and I must post more on them. But today visiting the recently-opened archaeological site, Plazuelas, in the southern part of the state…

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Servants. The Missing Link in Culinary Change

Here’s a story about servants.  Brigid Keenen, wife of a British diplomat in waning years of the last century, wrote a memoir. Perhaps her particular kind of British humor does…

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