Grinding Pineapple on a Metate (Simple Grindstone, Saddle Quern)
Inspired by this oil painting that shows a woman grinding pineapple to make juicel, I thought it was time to have a go myself. Now, you might say, who in…
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Alex just posted this link to a terrific video of Oaxaca cheese being made in (I assume) the food science lab at Chapingo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQo-gyzRNo0. [Edit]. The former link no longer…
Read moreMore Tangled than a Oaxacan Cheese: More Detective Work
Was Oaxacan cheese developed from mozzarella-making techniques introduced to Mexico by Italians? And was this in the 1950s? I’m still mulling this over. In and of itself it’s perhaps not…
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