Coconut
The coconut is not nature’s accident—it’s Austronesian infrastructure.
Human history
The long view: the species, not the century.
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Pozole
Pozole isn’t comfort food—it’s a ritual vessel that holds Aztec cosmology, colonial erasure, and unresolved questions about what we choose to digest.
Beer
Beer didn’t follow civilisation—it helped build it.
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