Nixtamal Cures and Cuisine
Mesoamerican recipes to help those affected by pellagra, the ‘pale spring sickness.’ The disease appeared worldwide as foreign lands began cultivating maize. The Nahuatl named it moxipehui, the self-husking.
I’m Reading…
Though maize sustains, the body cannot withstand its joyous force. When enough gathers inside, a person’s skin begins joining with the skin of the world, a process most mortals cannot survive. But fragments of the ‘Lime Shell’ can quell this, turning the force into a quiet, peaceful frost.
I’ve Read…
One dish requires the afflicted to hold a memory in their mind as it’s eaten. The Moth-flavors will cause it to molt and release the force from the body, leaving a Nameday Riddle to help shed the tattered skin. **Effect: **Memory: Satisfaction **Mastery: **Lesson: Solutions & Separations
Aspects
- Mystery: Moth 4
- Written in Nahuatl
- Subject: Solutions & Separations
- Codex
- Readable
- Thing
- Substructure