FACT: When you pound your spices and herbs on a traditional mortar and pestle or stone grinder, your food becomes tastier and more flavourful! The last time anybody used a mortar and pestle, silbatta ...

As a child, I always thought of the idli grinder at home as my mother’s best friend, saving her a lot of trouble. This same grinder is now used to make award-winning luxury chocolates: the ones that ...

Hundreds of old stone mortars, millstones and grinders, of different sizes and shapes, are on display at a private museum in the mountainous district of Yen The in the northern province of Bac Giang.