More ur-food toasted flours

Soon I want to introduce another of these toasted ground ur-foods that is still used in parts Europe, the Caribbean and South America. But for now, from readers, toasted ground…

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Bread, beer and agriculture

Last week Onkel Bob posted a long response to my post, Bread first or beer first? A bad question. He made several interesting points but the most important point, to…

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It’s the shear bloody work of it (sic). Grinding

Following on the previous post, the point is that banging, hitting, pounding, percussion does not produce flour out of grains (grape skins, chestnuts, bracken I shall leave for another post,…

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