“La Decisión”
https://majomenendez.art/la-decision-4/

Hay decisiones que no se toman.
Se van macerando,
rumiando en silencio,
hasta que finalmente se manifiestan.

Este gaucho está ahí.
En ese momento previo.
Donde el pensamiento todavía no es acción
pero ya es certeza.

¿Qué está pensando?

Disponible.
Más info Link in Bio 🥰🫶🏼

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The different methods of preparation influence to a certain extent the value of the product, the mate prepared in Paraguay being considered the best, that of Oran and Paranagua very inferior. The leaves when dried are packed tightly in serons or oblong packages made of raw hides, which are then carefully sewed up. These shrink by exposure to the sun, and in a couple of days form compact parcels each containing about 200 lb of tea; in this form it keeps well.

The tea is generally prepared for use in a small silver-mounted calabash, made of the fruit of Crescendo, cujete (Cuca) or of Lagenaria (Cabaco), usually about the size of a large orange, the tapering end of the latter serving for a handle. In the top of the calabash, or mate, a circular hole about the size of a florin is made, and through this opening the tea is sucked by means of a bombilla. This instrument consists of a small tube 6 or 7 in. long, formed either of metal or a reed, which has at one end a bulb made either of extremely fine basket-work or of metal perforated with minute holes, so as to prevent the particles of the tea-leaves from being drawn up into the mouth. Some sugar and a little hot water are first placed in the gourd, the yerva [sic] is then added, and finally the vessel is filled to the brim with boiling water, or milk previously heated by a spirit lamp.

A little burnt sugar or lemon juice is sometimes added instead of milk. The beverage is then handed round to the company, each person being furnished with a bombilla. The leaves will bear steeping about three times. The infusion, if not drunk soon after it is made, rapidly turns black. Persons who are fond of mate drink it before every meal, and consume about 1 oz. of the leaves per day.

Either not just customs but chemistry itself have changed radically in the last century or the Britannica is just bullshit.

Yes, I hear you: again?

(It's somewhere in Vol. 17 of the 11th Edition. It's in the Archive. Searchable even. You know where to find it. My notes say "pages 877-878" but that could be anything. Anyway, it's right after Master, Master and Servant, Mastodon, Matador and Matamoros, among many such delightful entries. Too tired right now to give you the exact chapter and verse. Hit me up in a few days if you really need it.)

#Paraguay #Brasil #Brazil #Argentina #Uruguay #Mate #YerbaMate

Today in Labor History February 20, 1931: An anarchist uprising in Encarnación, Paraguay briefly transformed the city into the revolutionary Encarnación Commune. Students and workers created popular assemblies to run the city. They tried to create communes in other towns, too, but the authorities thwarted their attempts. When the authorities began to retake Encarnacion, many of the insurrectionists stole steamboats and fled to Brazil. Along the way, they attacked yerba mate companies and burned records related to indentured servants. Gabriel Casaccia alluded to the uprising in his novel “Los Herederos.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #uprising #brazil #YerbaMate #Revolutionary #commune #paraguay #slavery #novel #books #author #fiction #writer @bookstadon

Gestern kam neuer #Tee und außerdem zwei neue Kalebassen aus Keramik. Den #Mate habe ich bisher aus einer doppelwandigen Edelstahl #Kalebasse getrunken, mir dabei aber regelmäßig die Zunge verbrannt.
Die Keramik liegt besser in der Hand und der Tee ist schneller genießbar 🍵

#yerbamate #yerba #calebaza

El mate: la bebida que mantiene vivo un bosque

El mate: la bebida que mantiene vivo un bosque
En el sur del Brasil, una bebida nunca es solo una bebida. Cuando la cuia, una vasija de uso habitual para beber, va pasando de mano en mano llena de chimarrão, la tradicional infusión brasileña de yerba mate, la gente empieza a conversar y a familiarizarse con el lugar. La vasija transmite algo más que [...]

#Biodiversidad #BosquesNativos #Brasil #FAO #Mate #Mundo #YerbaMate

https://elmundo.cr/mundo/el-mate-la-bebida-que-mantiene-vivo-un-bosque/