Butter for Industry. Or Non-Food Uses of Farm Products

From Nick Trachet of the Brussel Nieuws The county of Flanders was in the Ancien Régime known as Butter Country.  The peasants made and sold butter and lived on butter…

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Butter Churn Technology: What’s the Breakthrough?

Over at Slate, Farhad Manjoo, their technology columnist, takes on the question of butter technology. My homemade butter was delicious, just about the best butter I’d ever tasted. (I am…

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Almond Milk and Butter

Closely related to horchata is almond milk which was so essential for fast day cooking in the Catholic world when milk was not permitted. And luckily my long-standing buddy Ken…

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