Who ground the chocolate? Not a trivial question

Of all the difficult things to turn into food (and most plants and animals are difficult to turn into food), cacao beans and their processing rank way up there. Let’s…

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Mexican-American Flappers-Lazy at the Metate

Flappers with bobbed hair in 1920s America were not just Anglos.  Mexican Americans in Texas also bobbed their hair. Here’s a translation of a song, Las Pelonas, the bobbed hairs. …

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Why the West Doesn’t Wet Grind. Update

The question, posed by Ken Albala.  Why doesn’t the “West” grind wet?  That is why didn’t they soak or boil grains before they ground them? As a preliminary I would…

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