Amaranth. Sound familiar? No, not the lipstick color. Not the bedding plant, either. Or the weed, popularly known as pigweed, that is the enemy of many gardeners as well as commercial farmers. No, ...

Looking to mix up your grain game? Popular options like quinoa, buckwheat, oats, and millet are excellent choices, but without amaranth, you're missing out on a superb addition to your meals. You may ...

A flowering amaranth plant. Photo by Rob Myers. Features writer {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. In the 1520s, the Spanish ...

Something quietly remarkable is happening in kitchens around the world. Foods that nourished ancient civilizations thousands ...

This is part of a continuing series on the health benefits of grains you might not have heard of or tried. What It Is: - "Technically, amaranth is not a true grain. It is often called a 'pseudo-grain' ...

On a sunny Friday morning in San Pablo Huitzo, a town in the Valles Centrales region of Oaxaca, Mexico, a half-dozen women are gathered for a workshop on making alegrías, a healthy, granola bar-like ...