Bread first or beer first? A bad question
Which came first, bread or beer? The very possibility that we brewed beer before we baked bread sounds–well–it sounds sexy. How titillating to think that people rushed to make something…
Read moreIt’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,…
Read morePasta, Vermicelli or Fideos. Ah Ha.
An ah ha moment. I was re-reading the best book we have on the history of pasta, Pasta The Story of a Universal Food, by Silvano Serventi and Francoise Sabban…
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