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  2. Molcajete - Wikipedia

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    A molcajete (Spanish: [molkaˈxete]; Mexican Spanish, from Nahuatl molcaxitl) and tejolote (from Nahuatl texolotl) are stone tools, the traditional Mexican version of the mortar and pestle, [1] [2] similar to the South American batan, used for grinding various food products.

  3. Aztec cuisine - Wikipedia

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    The molcajete is another grinding tool. It is a bowl made of porous basalt rock, and an accompanying basalt cylinder was used to grind foods into the molcajete. It looks and functions very similarly to a western mortar and pestle.

  4. List of Mexican inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Tridilosa: invented by civil engineer Heberto Castillo. Anti-graffiti coating (Deletum 3000): developed in the early 2000s at UNAM’s Applied Physics and Advanced Technology Centre in Querétaro Mexico. Earthquake Resistant Foundations: invented by engineer Manuel González Flores in 1945.

  5. Sacramento invented the bear claw pastry? The internet says ...

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    Conventional wisdom says the bear claw pastry was invented in downtown Sacramento more than a century ago. ... In this case, it was the molcajete con patas de jaiva ($38/$50), a towering mound of ...

  6. Mexican cuisine - Wikipedia

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    A molcajete and tejolote, the traditional mortar and pestle of Mexico. The importance of the chile goes back to the Mesoamerican period, where it was considered to be as much of a staple as corn and beans. In the 16th century, Bartolomé de las Casas wrote that, without chiles, the indigenous people did not think they were eating.

  7. Mortar and pestle - Wikipedia

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    Stone Age stone mortar and pestle, Kebaran culture, 22000–18000 BC Rock mortars in Raqefet Cave, Israel, used for making beer during the Stone Age Mortars and pestles were invented in the Stone Age when humans found that processing food and various other materials by grinding and crushing into smaller particles allowed for improved use and various advantages.

  8. List of military inventions - Wikipedia

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    Date invented Invented by Original purpose Civilian uses ASDIC: 1910s United Kingdom. France. Submarine detection Sonar: Radar: mid-1930s United Kingdom [1] [2] Early warning radar, air defence systems: Air traffic control systems, microwave oven: Walkie-talkie: 1930s Canada (Donald Hings) [3] United States (Alfred J. Gross, Motorola SCR-300)

  9. Edmund McIlhenny - Wikipedia

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    Edmund McIlhenny (/ ˈ m æ k əl h ɛ n i /; 1815 – 25 November 1890) was an American businessman and manufacturer who founded the McIlhenny Company, which was the first to mass produce Tabasco sauce.