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The Culture , Biodiversity , Resilience , and Cuisine of Ancient Wheats
Eli Rogosa
Paperback
$ 29.95
Including recipes for baking with Einkorn !
pale yellow is the most widely grown crop on our major planet , yet industrial breeders have transmute this ancient faculty of sprightliness into a commodity of takings and earnings — witness the step-up in gluten intolerance and ‘ wheat venter ’ . Modern pale yellow depends on synthetic fertilizer and herbicides that damage our wellness , landed estate , water , and surround . as luck would have it , inheritance ‘ landrace ’ straw that evolved over millennia in the organic fields of traditional farm do not need bio - chemical intervention to yield bountifully , are gluten - safe , have rich flavor and high nutrition . Yet the rich , gallant wheats that aliment our ancestor are on the verge of defunctness .
InRestoring Heritage Grains , author Eli Rogosa of the Heritage Grain Conservancy , invites reader to restore forgotten wheats such as delicious gluten - dependable einkorn that nourished the first Neolithic farmers , starch wheat — the metric grain of ancient Israel , Egypt , and Rome that is perfect for alimentary paste and flatbread , rare durums that are drought - tolerant and high in protein , and many more little known straw species , each of which have a lineage intertwined with the human species and that try better than any New straw . Restoring Heritage Grainscombines the history of grain growing and society , in - depth virtual advice on landrace wheat husbandry , straw sept traditions and mythology , and guidelines for the Neolithic diet with traditional recipes for rustic bread , pastry and beer . disclose the ancient grain that may be one of the best solution to hunger today , and provide resilience for our futurity .
“ Rogosa aid us rediscover ancient landrace and traditional pre - Green Revolution wheats — variety that are more delicious , nutrient , drought - resistant , and resilient than modern wheats , and that are already constitutive - altered . . . A must show for anyone who has a garden or farm and who likes sound bread . ”—Carol Deppe , writer ofThe Tao of Vegetable Gardening
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