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"rues i que as pudiera con tar de los secretos naturales que he descubierto estando guisando! ' "How many secrets of nature [ could tell about that I have discovered while cooking For to keep sugar syrup liquid, all you have to do is add a water that has been in contact with quince or any sour fruit. You probably think such things ark silly, but what are women allowed to study but kitchen sciences? Yet one can be a scientist while dinner, I often say, when I observe these phenomena, that Aristotle had been a cook, he would have had even more to write about This was written by a Mexican nun in the 1680's. We can still respond to such examples of intellectual curiosity from long ago. Art and the sciences develop only in contact with human life and experience; the theoretical and the practical always go hand-in-hand Georgina Rivers 20B