separated from the stalk. The leftovers are used for fodder for cattle, etc. . .

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-Herodotus

the millet family and appears to be gluten free.

^{"All men's gains are the fruit of venturing."}

-Herodotus

If I may make a suggestion.

If you are reluctant to try out exotic grains, all you need to do is this:

White rice is easier to digest but less nutritious than brown rice. In order to increase its nutrient value, cook white rice (preferably Basmati) with 1-2 tbsp of any of the following grains.

Teff is high in iron and calcium
Amaranth is high in calcium and protein
Quinoa is high in protein
Kamut berries - a good source of dietary fiber, Thiamin and Phosphorus, and a very good source of Manganese and Selenium.

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of cooking alternatives. First kale, now new grains for me to hunt down.

Tonight I am cooking moroccan chicken with couscous.

A funny story: a friend from Hong Kong visited a few months ago, I offered him rice or cous cous as alternatives for dinner. He expressed a 'racist' attitude towards the cous cous. I cooked rice.

Don't use Kamut berries as mentioned in the list of grains to add to rice. It takes too long to cook. I grind these in my coffee grinder and then cook it into a porridge. I meant to say Kasha (buckwheat groats) - this tastes delicious with rice. It gives it a nutty flavor. It's also chocful of nutrients such as: calcium, iron, B vitamins, plus it is a source of a complete protein.

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Tef is an under-appreciated grain. The grains are dark brown and smaller than poppy seeds. It needs *no* moisture during the summer to grow. If there is snow melt in the spring, that's all it needs to grow up and head out. You can get tef grain and tef flour from Bob's Red Mill but you may have to have your health food store order it. It's good, but there's no gluten in it, so you can't make it rise very high. A flatbread can be made of it, however. I have been told that there is a guy in Idaho that grows almost all of the tef grown in the U.S. and therefore is the supplier to Bob's Red Mill. I've tried it as a hot cereal and it works best if you mix it with millet or quinoa or amaranth. Amaranth is an excellent grain to grow on a very small scale - you simply bend the stalks over a wheelbarrow and hit them with a stick. I intend to try it next year. I have not grown tef, but if we have another summer like last year (with NO rain in the summer) I may try it. FWIW.

Here's a wikipedia article.

^{"All men's gains are the fruit of venturing."}

-Herodotus

ex-pats. As I recall, most of the successful farmers in Zimbabwe were natives of the country, in the sense that they were born there. If it were individuals with a serious tie in to the land, I don't have an issue with it. But big agri-business? Agri-business owned by the Saudis, as the Post story indicates? I can't help but to think that won't be so good.

^{"All men's gains are the fruit of venturing."}

-Herodotus

Most of the farmers in Zimbabwe were second or third generation.

As in South Africa, where many of the farms go back to The Great Trek.

The Africans fought the Farmers of European descent over land.

This will end badly, for now it will be the "peoples government" vs the "rural people" or Darfur over and over and over again, especially when the "people government" is one tribe and the "rural locals" another.