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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www.metmuseum.org I subscribe to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s daily feed, highly recommended. So a couple of days ago I was delighted when the title that popped up was “cider.” …
Read moreThe trick to grinding cacao on the metate (grindstone).
Now grinding seeds is always hard so it’s no wonder that Beatrice resorted to the coffee grinder, especially because she was working with a pestle and mortar, which, even if…
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