When I get out of the bike's saddle to grind up Page Mill Road behind Palo Alto, Calif.

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The National Trust thinks the internal workings were substantially altered in about 1840 to allow the mill to grind wheat, having previously ground oats.

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For example, when you nixtamalize corn to make tortillas, the traditional recipe is to boil the corn with limestone, let it sit overnight outside, then grind it at the mill.

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And compromise brings two wonderful things in its wake: it reduces the quantity of legislation that can grind its way through the legislative mill, and it improves the quality.

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In Costa Rica, Jose Antonio Vera, head of sales and exports for Coopronaranjo, a cooperative with 2, 000 producers, said that in recent years it has launched two supermarkets and a roasting mill where producers can grind their own coffee and sell at a greater value than their beans.

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