The Mother Grain- Quinoa -- 03/05/2010

I made a mistake the other day and sent my friend a recipe to try that had something strange called “quinoa”(keen -wah) in it.  I got a very tired voice at 6 pm calling me from the grocery store saying, “Molly, no one who works here knows what quinoa is.”  Few do, but you will now be one of the lucky ones!  I’ve called around myself, and one thing I can tell you is that if you go anywhere other than a health food grocery store, they will scrunch their eyebrows and say, “Keen-what?”  Quinoa is a grain (really a seed) with one of the highest protein levels for a grain, and the only one boasting…

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