Smoke from grills perfumes the narrow aisles and so many women briskly pat stone-ground tortillas into shape that it sounds like a standing ovation.

And, on the bookshelf, a magnificent white bear with turquoise eyes Shared the dish of stone-ground yellow cornmeal with the little turquoise rabbit.

Mollie was not used to getting up early in the morning and had a way of leaving work early on the ground that there was a stone in her hoof.