re: #81 The Ghost of a Flea

It’s an seed that is amino-acid rich, and is pretty much the dominant staple of the Andes, along with the potato. It can be used a lot like rice.

It’s currently trendy in the US and Europe as a “superfood” causing it’s commodity value to jump; this is resulting in dietary deficits in the regions it’s traditionally cultivated.

There was a bit on our local talk-radio show where this woman was extolling the virtues of the latest superfood with apparent miraculous curative and preventative powers. At the time I didn’t quite catch the name. I wondered if quinoa was that food, so I just looked it up. It is the same.

With all the magical superfoods available, why do we still have sick people?