by Mark Christian | Dec 28, 2012 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
Tensions spilled into the streets today with roadblocks set up by an indigenous group led by Alberto Pizango Chota. The reason for the barricades is to protest new decrees that would allow oil & mining companies to enter the territory without their consent or even...
by Mark Christian | Dec 28, 2012 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
Now it was onward to transform cocoa nuts into chocolate bars. Chocolate at its most fundamental science level explains an emulsion of cocoa mass in cocoa butter, & suspension of both in sugar. Simple stuff, no? Ha… cry a river. Who better than De Vries to...
by Mark Christian | Dec 27, 2012 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
In no time they met a person who makes it his business to meet everyone & know everything about life in the canyon. Every community has one of these individuals, someone who opens doors few suspect even exist. If Dan Pearson represents the deal-making,...
by Mark Christian | Dec 27, 2012 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
At the speed of life his sons followed in their dad’s footsteps, & beyond, trailing him to South America… & marrying Peruvian women. Hot-blooded Americans brothers hooking up with Latina chicas. After checking out the country on a Spanish language...
by Mark Christian | Dec 27, 2012 | The Crush Pad Editorials |
In 2008, Pearson spirited some coarsely fermented beans out of Peru & brought them back to California. Everyday before this gym rat works out, he’d pop a couple in his mouth as a sort of natural PED (Performance Enhancing Drug). More than a food, less than a drug,...
