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It wasn’t just farmers who took grain to the miller: many people preferred to buy grain and have it milled than buy ready-ground flour at market. Grain keeps well, each packet of nutrition individually wrapped in its own bran husk container. Once ground, open flour can begin to deteriorate in a matter of weeks. Grain therefore went to the mill in s

The soupy mass of crushed grapes, juice, skins, pulp, seeds, and possibly stems is called the must.

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Shobashi comes alive at night. From appearances, it’s a dump. And from sundown to sun-up, on the third floor of a building throbbing with karaoke reverb, you’ll find the bar where Makiko works, five nights a week, from seven until around midnight.

In a prime spot just across the yellow-tape road from the lemon trees, he tended his own dark grove of bookshelves, and beside them a field of legal boxes, which held thousands of menus from restaurants famous and obscure. Whenever I passed Horace’s collection, there was someone flipping through the menus with the furious intensity of a DJ digging