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Your Gluten-Free Mother's Day Brunch Menu

Phoebe Lapine | Posted 05.06.2013 | Taste
Phoebe Lapine

Mother's Day brunch is an annual tradition, full of dainty tea sandwiches, decadent French toast, and muffins galore. What's a wheat-free woman to do?

Egypt's Looming Famine and America's Grain Bounty

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.07.2013 | Business
Raymond J. Learsy

Along with this new focus and responsibility, it is also high time that the nation establishes a Strategic Grain Reserve much in keeping with the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

The 5 Best Gluten-Free Flours and What to Do With Them

Phoebe Lapine | Posted 04.02.2013 | Taste
Phoebe Lapine

Here are my favorite five gluten-free flours that I like to keep around the house and some recipe ideas to keep those canisters from getting dusty.

The Udon Master

Daniel Klein | Posted 01.13.2013 | Home
Daniel Klein

Shimizu San not only makes his own udon and grinds his own flour, but he also grows his own wheat.

Why Bread Is No Longer Rising

Rozanne Gold | Posted 12.31.2012 | Home
Rozanne Gold

I was struck by a fascinating web post this week reporting that, as a country, we're consuming sharply declining amounts of wheat products. Given the vast numbers of Big Macs, Subway sandwiches and Domino's pizzas we buy every day, it seemed counterintuitive.

The Faithful Shopper: Gluten-Free Goodies

Faith Hope Consolo | Posted 10.30.2012 | New York
Faith Hope Consolo

These days, gluten-free baked goods and pastas can't be distinguished from their wheat-based brethren. We've come a long way from the days of rice cakes and dried fake bread! Visit these bakeries, restaurants and shops and feast!

Kansas Wheat 'Tour' Finds Most Fields Are Maturing Early

AP | ROXANA HEGEMAN | Posted 07.03.2012 | Green

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Participants in the annual Kansas winter wheat tour observed drought-stressed wheat fields Wednesday in southwestern counties, ...

Experts Develop New Wheat Strain

Reuters | Tan Ee Lyn | Posted 05.12.2012 | Green

By Tan Ee Lyn HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scientists in Australia have crossed a popular, commercial variety of wheat with an ancient species...

The Important Message One Little Stamp Is Trying To Tell You

Kitchen Daily | Posted 08.31.2012 | Taste

Whether you're casually browsing the supermarket aisles or you're on a pointed mission to get everything on your list, you're probably not going to ta...

On Being Amber Instead of Green

Bill Chameides | Posted 03.07.2012 | Green
Bill Chameides

Is poetic license about vegetation OK in a political campaign? The presidential campaign season is upon us and so we'd better be prepared for some political hyperbole and truth-bending.

Farm to Fork Across America: What's the Dirt?

Julie Ann Fineman | Posted 01.14.2012 | Home
Julie Ann Fineman

There's a revolution brewing on the plains of Kansas. For the past 30 years Wes Jackson, founder of The Land Institute, has been working to correct a major step in the wrong direction by the founding fathers of farming -- when they chose annual grain crops instead of perennials.

The 7 Healthiest Cereals to Eat Before Your 9 a.m. Class

Small Kitchen College | Posted 11.21.2011 | College
Small Kitchen College

2011-09-21-Screenshot20110921at11.04.17AM.jpgCereal is the optimal college breakfast food.

Gold Prices Continue To Rise On Europe Economy Fears

AP | SANDY SHORE | Posted 10.16.2011 | Business

Gold prices moved higher Tuesday as concerns deepened about the slowing European economy. Economic growth in Germany and France barely budged in the ...

Reading the World in a Loaf of Bread

Christian Parenti | Posted 09.18.2011 | World
Christian Parenti

In much of the world, that daily loaf of bread often stands between the mass of humanity and starvation. If recent upheavals were not "resource conflicts" in the formal sense of the term, think of them at least as bread-triggered upheavals.

The Casual Beer Drinker's Summer Brews Rundown

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 08.16.2011 | Home
Big Girls, Small Kitchen

Small Kitchen College Ahh, summer! Nary a warm breeze wafted o'er my sunkissed cheeks before I thought: man, I could really use a beer right now. In...

Hedge Funds: Time To Go Back To The Soil

TIME.com | Stephen Gandel | Posted 08.03.2011 | Business

This is usually a slow time of the year for farm sales. It's past prime planting season. Yet, Sam Kain, Des Moines area manager for land sales at Farm...

Russian Investment Opportunities: The Drivers and the Hidden Gems

Gemma Godfrey | Posted 07.31.2011 | Business
Gemma Godfrey

It is clear to see why investors place so much emphasis on the oil price as a dictator of Russia's financial health. Supplying some 11.4% of the world's oil supply last year, Russia is the "biggest single source outside the OPEC cartel."

Ending Egypt's Bread Subsidies Could Cause Drastic Price Increases

AP | By CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 05.28.2011 | Business

CAIRO -- In the gritty gusts of a sandstorm, men in turbans and women in veils stood uncomplaining for hours outside a ramshackle kiosk, lined up for ...

William Alden

Middle East Protests Spark 'Fears Of The Unknown,' As Prices Rise

HuffingtonPost.com | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

As civil unrest spreads through the Middle East, investors continue to fear that political change in the region could disrupt the world's economies. ...

Food: What's Really Behind the Unrest in Egypt

Jeffrey Rubin | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Jeffrey Rubin

When 40% of your population lives on less than $2 per day, soaring food prices isn't about cutting back on luxury spending.

Who Will Feed Egypt?

Robert Walker | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Robert Walker

While reports differ as to how extensive Egypt's grain reserves are, a shut off of grain imports would imperil Egypt's ability to feed itself.

Wealthy Ag Lobbies Cry Poor

Donald Carr | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Donald Carr

The idea that agribusiness lobbyists don't have the funds to properly "defend" their continuing cornucopia of taxpayer dollars does not even come close to passing the smell test.

Australian Locust Thrive, Rocky Mountain Ones Disappear

Dr. Reese Halter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Dr. Reese Halter

A plague of locusts of biblical proportion has hatched and is growing as Australia, the fourth largest grain exporter, has gone form 13 years of bone-dry drought to the wettest September since the inception of record keeping in 1860.

QE2 Dangerous for American Wage Earners

Robert Lenzner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Robert Lenzner

A policy that makes fortunes for commodity traders, for hedge fund operators, for the gold and silver crowd while squeezing 90% of the nation is a terrible price to pay for replacing deflation with inflation.

In Farm Country, Democrats' Bitter Harvest

Donald Carr | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Donald Carr

Just two years ago, Democratic political strategists defended passage of a status-quo farm subsidy bill by claiming it was essential to the survival o...