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...Tabloids can devote more time to UFO sightings and mysterious corn field circles...
Edward Tolini, Le Bocage--Watertown MA Native turkey from Essex Braised rabbit with polenta (corn meal mush not unlike grits, but tighter, more' dense) Apple pie Pecan pie Some kind of anti pasto--eggplant...
Born in poverty, uneducated, Menchu became a farm laborer as a small child, tending corn and beans on her parents' tiny plot and traveling with them to the south to work on coffee, cotton and sugar plantations. She did not even learn to speak Spanish until she was 20. But the world learned her story with the 1983 publication of her autobiography I, Rigoberta Menchu, which eventually appeared in 11 languages. It tells of Quiche life in the mountains and the domination of the Indians, who make up 60% of the population, by the minority Ladinos, mostly the descendants...
Society was also growing more complex in Mexico and Central America, but it was at its most elaborate in parts of South America. Settlers in the Ayacucho region of the Andes had domesticated guinea pigs and llamas by the time Iceman lived, and farmed potatoes, squash, beans and corn. Along the coastal desert of what is now northern Chile, the Chinchorro used woven fishing nets and hooks made of cactus thorns, shell and bone to harvest a rich diet from the sea. The Chinchorro, who were savvy hunters, developed elaborate mummification techniques some 2,500 years before the Egyptians, probably...
Workers demonstrated the production of face cloths, baby-bibs, and--at what Sullivan called "the crowning point" of the tour--brooms. One employee offered to let Weld help him bind the corn stalks of a broom...