A staple food that dates back thousands of years and was embraced by Inca culture, quinoa is still cultivated in the Andean plains of Peru, Colombia, Chile and Bolivia, where the magenta stalks can ...

I ate quinoa-and-turkey chili in a cafeteria today, which, when you think about it, is pretty amazing. Rarely does an entire culture, almost overnight, adopt an entirely new food. Just 15 years ago, ...

SEQUIM, Wash. (AP) – To the south of Nash Huber's farm fields are the Olympic Mountains, peaking at nearly 8,000 feet. Due north is the end of a channel of Pacific Ocean waters that separate the ...

As the "superfood" quinoa gains popularity, farmers across the nation are looking at ways to make the food more sustainable. Even in Alaska. Fairbanks farmer Matt Springer cultivated a small crop of ...

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