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Of Grains and Men – Farming, Society, and Quinoa – Part 2

While people were busy domesticating maize, beans and squash in Central America, inhabitants of the Andes highlands in areas of Peru and Bolivia began manipulating their own local plants, including quinoa (pronounced “keen-wa” or “kee-noo-ah”). Scientists have identified domesticated quinoa seeds in the Peruvian Andes dating to 3000 B.C. Quinoa is a member of the [...]

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Cooking Roasts

Many kitchen novices avoid large slabs of meat like roasts and brisket because they’re afraid of under or over-cooking the meat. Well go ahead and buy these Flintstone-sized pieces, because there is a very simple method for
cooking tender, juicy roast.
The rule is to cook the meat at 275-degrees F for the same number of hours [...]

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Of Grains and Men – Farming, Society, and Quinoa – Part 1

Take yourself back 11,000 years ago to a time before cities and government, before metallurgy, when people across the world were still hunters and gatherers using stone and bone implements to hunt and capture prey while foraging
for various plant foods. The world was just at the eve of a phenomenon known as the “Neolithic Revolution”, [...]

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