Chocolate and Toasted Maize: What a Drink
Many countries still have drinks that go back deep into the past. One such is taxcalate from Chiapas in the far south of Mexico. Here’s the powder base: ground toasted…
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No food to be seen. But a place of much vigor.
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Well, I thought I knew every way of separating eggs and yolks: with the shell, through the fingers, even using a gadget. But this afternoon at her request I was…
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