Got an interesting book for Christmas: Cuisine & Empire, Cooking in World History. It's a survey of different cuisines over several thousand years. I've read part of the part. One of the early surprises was the discussion of grinding grain. What's really involved is a shearing action. With hand tools, like the metate, it takes a long long time for the woman to grind the grain for a family
The Times has an article on the ways in which solar electricity is coming to areas of India which don't have power lines. It includes this quote:
"“We still have to do manual grinding of grains and spices,” Mr. Kalayya
said. “It takes up a lot of time. The next loan can be for a machine
that will do this.”
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