A Critique of the Mediterranean Diet. And More by a Spanish Food Historian

Mr Keys* and his Spanish friends located in the United States dedicated themselves to promoting the benefits of a [Mediterranean] diet that was only strictly followed in Crete and that…

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Who ground the chocolate? Not a trivial question

Of all the difficult things to turn into food (and most plants and animals are difficult to turn into food), cacao beans and their processing rank way up there. Let’s…

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Cuisine and Language 5. Expanding and Contracting

Linguists have analyzed when and how languages expand. Only rarely is it by the natural growth of the original group that speaks the language (the Pacific Island case). More often…

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