“For both food professionals and avid home cooks, knowing where our food comes from has become the new gold standard. Yet for all our free-range eggs, grass-fed beef and greenmarket vegetables, this shift in consumer demand has all but ignored one of the most significant food groups in our diet: grains.
Photos by Lauren DeFilippo
In communities across the United States, groups like the Colorado Grain Chain and the Noble Grain Alliance are lobbying to promote heirloom grains, a class of pre-industrial plants that promise greater nutritional benefits—and bolder flavor—than modern monocropped wheat or corn. Yet to understand the value of these heirloom grains, you have to look back at the past century of American agriculture. ”
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