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Article: Rediscovering quinoa Ancient grain finds a place in modern cooking.(Food)(Recipe)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- October 10, 2007
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Byline: Deborah Pankey Daily Herald Food Editor
dpankey@@dailyherald.com
Some 6,000 years ago, quinoa (pronounced keen-wa) grew in the Andean region of South America. The Incas revered the grain - a seed, really - as "the mother of all grains."
But when Spanish conquerors ruled the region, they destroyed the crop in an effort to control the native population, and quinoa remained lost for centuries.
Until relatively recently.
In the 1980s, farmers started to re-cultivate it and nutritionists began to study it. What they found has led quinoa to be classified as a "super food" along with blueberries and beans.
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