Why White Bread and Maize Were/Are Preferred (Again)

Lockwood Kipling, Rudyard’s father and head art teacher at the Sir Jamsetje Jeejeboy College of Art in Bombay, founded by the epynonymous Indian benefactor, reflects on the Indian peasant diet.…

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Maize, glorious maize. Arepas this time.

Maize is getting such bad press at the moment in the United States.  But it is such a wonderful grain, so flexible, so many appealing products. Arepas, as you doubtless…

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More on nixtamalization

A very nice post by David Arnold of the French Culinary Institute on nixtamalization. I think he is not right about the kind of metates and molcajetes needed.  Pores are…

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