Let’s continue exploring the Mediterranean Diet lifestyle, which encourages us to build meals around grains, colorful fruits and vegetables, beans, lentils, and seeds. Ancient populations in the New World relied on pseudocereals—plant seeds used in cooking like cereal grains. Two important examples are amaranth and quinoa (pronounced KEEN-wa). Evidence of amaranth cultivation dates back to … Continue reading Amaranth and Quinoa – New World Ancient Pseudocereals