In Praise of Bland Food

7am.  Facebook.  A post pops up on how to make a chocolate-covered bacon shot glass for your whiskey. I must have missed this phenomenon because when I googled “chocolate-covered bacon…

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Grinding Chocolate by Hand

Following up on an earlier post about turning cacao beans into chocolate, Lesley Téllez provides a timely lesson on what grinding chocolate on the metate (grindstone) is actually like. Pain…

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The trick to grinding cacao on the metate (grindstone).

Now grinding seeds is always hard so it’s no wonder that Beatrice resorted to the coffee grinder, especially because she was working with a pestle and mortar, which, even if…

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