Sugar, Salt, and Fossil Fuels
Thanks to Lane Turner, staff photographer and pictorial editor for the Boston Globe, for putting together a wonderful slide show of (largely) traditional methods of producing sugar and salt. via Sugar…
Read moreWhy jamon serrano is not a cured meat (according to the USDA)
By arbitrarily removing salt and sugar from their rightful place as chemical compounds, the USDA eliminates hundreds of products that are traditionally cured with one or both of these chemicals. So, in the obfuscating terminology of…
Read moreGinger Beer
Real ginger beer is sharp and tingly with the plus of a little alcohol, not like its wimpy cousin, ginger ale. You can come close with bottles of non-alcoholic ginger…
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