How to Make Videos of Vanishing Ways of Using Plants and Cooking
Today I had the chance to chat with David Strauch and Laurie Durand. Although based in Hawaii, they have spent a couple of months in Mexico making videos of traditional…
Read moreWas Pulp Booze the First Cacao Beverage? Why I’m Doubtful
Well, after reading various newspaper stories about new information about the history of chocolate, I just couldn’t stop mulling over the idea that cacao (the tree whose fruit is the…
Read moreWas Pulp Booze the First Use of Cacao? An Intriguing Hypothesis
Beer of cacao pulp? That’s what the residues on pots in Puerto Escondido in Honduras suggested to John S. Henderson and Rosemary A. Joyce of Cornell and the University of…
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