Move over oat groats, Spelt is here!
Food for the Day 1. Warm lemon water w/ raw honey 2. Berry Smoothie (berries + water) w/ spirulina, maca, & mesquite powders 3. Green Juice (celery, kale, collard greens, cucumber, ginger, kiwi) 4. 1/2 Apple 5. A mandarin (I definitely feel back on track with my body after having just done this for a few days... I think by tomorrow I will have fully recovered from my white flour mishap ) Like most healthy foods have had to suffer since the rise of the unholy capitalist agro-food system, spelt is a grain that was once widely used throughout Europe and some parts of the Middle East that all but vanished by the 20th century. A hybrid crop with a mysterious and ancient history going back to the Bronze age, it wasn't introduced in the US until the late 1800s, where it only had a little while to thrive before it and all other wonderful forms of grains (kamut, amaranth, teff, etc.) were completely overshadowed by a booming wheat industry. (because wheat was just the 'easier' c...