Chisaya Mama - Ancient Incan Food

[Cognito]

It has been grown in the U.S. since the 1980s, when two farmers began cultivating it in Colorado.

My father-in-law was growing quinoa in his backyard since the 1970s. I agree -- it's tasteless. However, abba beans are a different story.

[rich]

Ahh -

Beans, beans are good for your heart -------

[War Arrow]

What kind of wine goes best with it?

I like sweet or white wine with it.
Quinoa is my favorite food, I usually mix it with cheese and have a margarita or mead with it.

Quinoa's not much of a meal-for the most part it's as tasteless as Tofu.

try the red or black kind, they have flavor, not sure how people lived on the black quinoa

I think that it is amazing that they already had plants that grew poisons that would keep animals from eating the crop, they really had the long term food supply figured out.

I wonder why I here less about amaranth than quinoa ? I thought it was from the same people.

Interesting. Cheese tip duly noted.
Yeah. Amaranth, that is odd, though there's a few things on the internet. I asked about amaranth on a first nations native american forum (otherwise full of stuff about cooking obscure things) and they didn't seem to know too much. In fact they said to let them know what I found.

[spacecase0]

all I could find on amaranth that had references is
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proc ... 1-140.html

this is a fairly typical history on the web, but no idea where the information came from
http://denver.yourhub.com/Arvada/Storie ... 64171.aspx

so it does look like amaranth is as old as corn and beans, and where it came from is just as foggy as corn.