Eating everywhere
In the Basque Country, agriculture is the history of permanent colonization. Like everywhere. Before, the land was not cultivated; before, the harvest was not sown; you enjoyed what was not eaten before. They had brought it all from elsewhere. Many of these stories have been written by crops everywhere, also in our own.
Thousands of years ago, they brought cereals. They are, not in vain, one of the axes of the basic food of a model of society, coming from the Mediterranean. Oats (Oats sativa), barley (Hordeum distichon), rye (Secale cereale) and, above all, wheat (Triticum aestivum) are old friends of the arrival of our history.
July brings the fields home or store. This is what the second scientific name of wheat indicates: aestivum, which is received in summer. Throughout the year they are filled with cereals, ganbara, mandium and silo to be able to make bread. Then the miller and the bakers will have to come.
A new bakery hit me in the eye yesterday: they use a disease-producing bacteria to create the pasta of bread. The job done by the yeast is done by the bacteria: remove the mass of bread. The bacterium is Clostridium perfringens, which can cause gangrene and food poisoning. In this spongy work produces sulphide, called rotten egg odor, although some call it a foot odor; in North America, those who make this bread claim that it has “a strong cheese odor.” Try the Rising Creek Bakery And Cafe at Mount Morrisko Main Street 115.eko in Pennsylvania (USA).
Someday that paw-smelling bread may be an important part of our culture. Just as we grew cereals and fed a little more Mediterranean, and we became a little American growing and eating corn, beans, peppers, pumpkins, etc.
Is culture, in fact, not, to some extent, choosing the outside and adapting it to our own? It is no bad thing that there is resistance, which is the one left aside in that election.
The day exceeds the night with the spring equinox. This year it happened on 20 March, at 22:59 hours, opening the door of the spring. The Eki prefix means the same thing. Until then the night had been longer. The day and night were twelve hours. Since then, the day is extended... [+]
Time has been on our line for a long time, but the climate is relatively recent. There is no need to clarify too much what climate change is. Explaining what the landscape is is a redder necessity. Conferences, round tables or international conferences on climate change are... [+]
It's time to pick up the fruits and get them on the way to the lagar. Pear (Pyrus communis), apple (Malus x domestica), grape (Vitis vinifera)... It seems a short and quick road, but you have to work a lot of rodeos and their variants until the fruit becomes must and must become... [+]
Returning to the wines that are made with the crops, the left madreselva (Humulus lupulus) is conservative and bitter tasting aggregator. The union of crops and madreselvas produces many dirty jets, especially in beer countries. A friend has just explained to me the stories of... [+]
In our house we met him with the name of madreselva (Humulus lupulus). In fact, we have worked hard and sinister on the banks of the river in our country, coinciding with the expansion of beer. We've learned that it's also called lobster, beer, beer, wart and grass on the left... [+]
Spring has brought the issue to my nose. C. worked at various research centers in New York. Bushdid, M. Oh! Magnasco, L.B. Vosshall and A. An article published by scientists Keller in March 2014 in the prestigious “Science Magazine” produced a great stir. The title says it... [+]
The curious interannual days end, those who eat and drink from the emanations of the earth. I'll eat from the best to the best. Supposedly. Heavy champagne and cava bottles are easy to dance. Even though they are of all kinds today, they were once the cider of the other barrel... [+]
Egin du izotzak berea: azioa, txarkeria. Aspaldian ikusi gabeko izotz zuri galantak izan ditugu apirilaren bukaeran. Sator-lana baina agerian, inongo lotsarik gabe: azerikeria. Ikaragarria bota du Euskal Herriaren hegoaldean.
Mila gau eta bat gehiago ipuin sortaren antzera, azken 22 urteetako mila artikulu eta bat gehiago hauen kontakizuna aitaren batean igaro zait. Txoko honetan Gerezi sasoi aparta izenburua zuen lehen artikulu xinple hura idatzi zuen umemoko hari, Persiako ipuin sorta horretako Nur... [+]
Maiatz ederrari ekin diogu. Konturatzerako bero sapa azaleratzen diguten urteko egun luzeenetan gara. Urteko gau motzenak izango dira orduan, baina ikuskizun paregabea eskaintzen dutenak. Ez naiz ari jai txolinenei adarrak ipintzen dizkieten su-festa zalapartatsuez. Isilagoak... [+]
Uhaga edo ponpa izugarriak dira landareak. Zuhaitz handiak, zer esanik ez. Metro eta erdiko gerribuelta duen pago (Fagus sylvatica) batek egunero 400 litro ur behar ditu metabolismoari eusteko. 400 litro ur aurkitu behar ditu non edo han; sustraije ikaragarria garatzen du ur... [+]
Estimatzeko intentzio osoarekin sagardo botila bat ireki, edalontzia sudurrera hurreratu eta botila itxita izan duen tortotxaren usaina hartzea, horixe infernua!
Sekulakoa iruditzen zait aurtengo negua jo eta eskaintzen ari zaigun kolore sinfonia. Eguraldi xelebreagatik ote? Epel gozotik izotzera; lehorte punttutik uholdeetara. Ala neroni nabil halatsu, eta aurten begi berriak ditut...
Kosmopolita da getozka, Portulaca oleracea. Munduan barrena hara eta hona hedatu dugu, jakinaren gainean edo azpian, eta toki askotan ondo bizi da. Noranahitarra da, eta edonon nonahikoa. Dakigun guztia bezala, ez dakigu oso ondo nongoa den. Landareez ari garenean, ikaragarrizko... [+]
Orbel kontuak ekarri ditudala paperera eta, irakurle batek hosto ihar horiek landarezaleontzat zein onuragarriak diren aipatu zidan; krixtaua zen, eta “bedeinkazio” bat zirela zioen.