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Article: Craving carbs during Passover? Check out quinoa.(Food)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- April 1, 2009
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Byline: Julie Wiener Associated Press
Passover can leave Jews hankering for a carb fix.
ThatAEs because during this eight-day celebration marking the ancient IsraelitesAE liberation from slavery, many Jews abstain from grains, including most wheat, barley, rye, spelt and oats, as well as rice, most other grains, corn and legumes.
Which is one reason more Jews are embracing a newly popular (yet quite ancient) grain-like product u quinoa, a nutrient- and protein-rich and increasingly popular food first cultivated thousands of years ago by the Incas of South America.
"On Passover the No. 1 thing youAEre really missing is grains, and ...