Our top pick is the Laevo Mortar & Pestle Large Set thanks to its versatility and double-sided bowl. If you’re on a tighter budget, we recommend the Samhita Handmade Acacia Wood Mortar and ...

Getty Images A 9-year-old boy has partially amputated his own penis while crushing up vegetables with a mortar and pestle. The castration catastrophe occurred in the Central African nation of ...

One person's mortar and pestle is another person's molcajete (Mexico) and still another's suribachi (Japan). You can find mortars of almost any material: lava, volcanic rock, wood, brass ...

Olive wood. Mediterranean cooks traditionally ... In Thailand, a ceramic mortar and pestle is used to lightly bruise ingredients for green papaya salad. Japanese earthenware.

A mortar is a bowl made of hard wood and the pestle is a heavy club-shaped object, used for pounding. Before flour making machines were introduced in Africa, people used wooded pestles and mortars to ...