by Dave DeWitt Don’t believe all those people who tell you avocado is a vegetable, because it’s not. It’s a fruit just like mangos, pears, tomatoes, chiles, and apples. It just happens to pair well with some vegetables like lettuce, especially in salads, so that’s why people think it’s a veggie. It’s one of my favorite fruits, along with mangos …
The Enjoyment of Bhutanese Comfort Food Story and Photos by Diana G. Armstrong A mountain road in Bhutan. With frayed nerves and jackhammered bodies, we arrive in Thimphu. Our shock absorber-free vehicle has come to a stop in the largest city in the country of Bhutan. To get here we jostled over mountain passes that were veritable nail biters. The …
Hello Mary: As you might expect, I’m very knowledgeable about the chile industry in New Mexico. I’ve never heard of such a machine. To the best of my knowledge it doesn’t exist, despite what you may have heard. There are mechanical seedling planters, mechanical thinners, mechanical harvesters for some varieties, and mechanical sorters for harvested chiles. But a mechanical peeler …
Remains of a 31,000 year-old mammoth and her calf have been discovered in excavations in the Czech Republic, reports Jiri Svoboda, a professor at the University of Brno. The meats were cooked luau-style underground. Svoboda said, “We found the heating stones still within the pit and around.” He believes that the central roasting pit and the circle of boiling …
