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Oaxaca Journal
Grasshoppers, by a special biblical dispensation, are kosher, unlike most invertebrates.
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They saw it as a food of the gods, and believed that the cacao tree originally grew only in Paradise, but was stolen and brought to mankind by their god Quetzalcoatl, who descended from heaven on a beam of the morning star, carrying a cacao tree.
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The feelings are similar, in some ways, to those one has in Rome or Athens, but quite different in other ways, because this culture is so different: so completely sun-oriented, sky-oriented, wind- and weather-oriented, as a start. The buildings face outward, life faces outward, whereas in Greece and Rome the focus is inward:
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Having ferned for an hour, we take a break for our lunch and I eat, unwisely, quite an enormous meal....
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