• CobblerScholar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Rice needs very wet and fairly warm conditions to grow whereas wheat is a cool weather crop and doesn’t need as much water

  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Wait until you learn about the ridiculous hoops you need to jump through to make cocoa or coffee beans into something palatable, especially compared to hot leaf juice tea.

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      15 days ago

      Cacao isn’t too bad. Eat the fruit, spit out the seeds into a pile, ferment a few days, roast, peal, grind and you got it. There are some details to the ferment but it’s not more complicated than any other ferment d food.

      • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        15 days ago

        As I understand it, the hard parts are removing the bitterness and getting the texture to be anything other than unpleasantly gritty. The traditional Meso-american cocoa was a spicy bitter drink; what we think of as “chocolate” today wasn’t invented until fairly recently and requires a fairly involved process.