It might not technically be a grain, but it is delicious.
While these quinoa recipes are decidedly recipes, did you know that quinoa is not *exactly* a grain? It’s a member of the goosefoot family, which sounds like a British TV drama but is actually a plant family that includes veg like Swiss chard, beets, and spinach.
Quinoa has become popular in health food aisles over the past 20-ish years, which has affected farmers in, but it’s long been a staple crop in South America since before 3,000 B.C.E., when it was cultivated by the Incas in the Andean region. Quinoa is now commonly referred to as a grain because we use the versatile little seeds as such, in
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