How to Buy a Metate (Simple Grindstone) in the United States
The question readers of my blog ask most frequently is “Where in the United States can I buy a metate (the shaped stone slabs on which Mexican women traditionally ground…
Read moreCharmingly Unromantic: Measuring Progress in Food
One of the things a food historians should do, it seems to me, is to offer readers some assessment or judgement of the foods of the past. Yes, yes, I…
Read moreCattle as Food Processors
A thought-provoking post from Jayson Lusk on the common and on-the-face-of-it plausible claim that grain-eating uses far fewer resources/much less energy than meat-eating. His counter: I suspect only a very…
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