Update Postopolis 10 Mexico City
Down on my knees grinding pineapple. A breeze compared to grains.
Well, I talked about grains and cities at Postopolis 10. About why Mexico had particular problems with its chosen grain, maize. And the revolution in the last half century, particularly in the last twenty years or so, in the way maize has been processed and cooked into tortillas.
Grains and grinding can sound, well, so grindingly dull. That makes it such a challenge and such fun to make people sit up and take notice. So I thoroughly enjoyed myself. And I was lucky to go first. The temperature was in the high 80s and the sun was blistering so I suspect the audience’s attention span was not that great as the afternoon wore on.
I’ll post a link when it becomes available. And Nicky Twilley has asked to post a transcript on Edible Geography. So I won’t say more here.
Thanks to Nick of BrusselNieuws and Cindy Bertelsen of Gherkins and Tomatoes of for excellent suggestions. The two of you have prompted me to get serious about the changing provisioning of Mexico City. So posts will be coming on that.
