If you used to buy or catch food in the Sled Forward Fast Restaurant Restaurant in 2013, you lived in Quinno’s obsession. At that time, it seemed as if quino -based grain cups were suddenly present everywhere, and grocery stores were significantly storing “super food” on their shelves. Quino seemed to be a miraculous: it was a whole grain full of protein, which was also the solution to the climate change, the world’s hunger and poverty. Among all the hype, the United Nations declared 2013 “International Year of Quino”.
Nevertheless, only two decades ago, some people outside Peru and Bolivia also knew that Quino existed. So how did Quino take the world through the storm? I This event of gastropodCo -host Senthia Graber and Nicola Tilly discovered how this edible seed became a precision -related food from the high Endis Mountains: this is the story of the inaccessible emperors and the victorious Spanish, American hippies, big promises and unexpected consequences.
Quino originates in Altplano, which is a height level in the Andes Mountains, which extends across Peru and Bolivia today. Although it is often discussed with other grains, quino is really closely linked to spinach than staples like wheat and rye. It is also one of the few crops that will grow well at 12,000 feet. This strict plant has been cultivated by indigenous farmers in the area for thousands of years, which includes a special system, including ornaments like OCA and other indigenous crops such as cracker tariff beans.
In the early 20th century, researchers began to see Quino’s nutritional ability. A remarkable experience was fed to rats or milk or milk to mice and found that quino -fed rats are large and strong. Nevertheless, Western countries were not just ready to embrace South American seeds. These were the years of amazing bread, the time of “living a better life through chemistry”, and strong wheat and dairy were mostly an important place in the minds of most Americans.
In the 1960s and 70s, a more “natural” food movements – which embraced all the decades of industrial foods like whole grains, beans and fresh vegetables, which began to change the way Americans see the links between diet and health, and the United States for the United States. In the 1980s, the work of the three American hippies coming from Colorado happened, one of whom loved this while traveling in Bolivia. They launched a Bolivian Quino export business to the states: You can find their brand, Ancient cropToday on the shelves of the supermarket.
But in the 1980s, Quino was still limited to health food, Crunch Co -Co -Area. Author of Tennessee’s University and recent book in Emma McDonel, Prof Quino breakBy the mid -1980s, there were probably only 20,000 to 40,000 quinno eaters in the United States by the mid -1980s. But people were starting to pay attention. New York Times Published a story in 1986 About that Quino was being “re -discovered” Through its introduction to the US market. In 1989, the US National Research Council published a report “Lost crops of inches“The feature of quino between other Anden crops, which he believed, could help relieve global appetite. The stage was set for Quinno’s first film.
At the same time, the scenes around the Quino were changing in Peru. Ever since Spanish colonies, Quino has become associated with rural poor. It was not unusual for the wealthy coastal followers that had never heard of Quinno, not just allowing it to eat. But in the 1980s, Peru Chefs decided to restore their country food, so that Peru was associated with food with Brazil with football or Argentina.
“It was an oximron to say that you were going to Fancy Peru’s restaurant,” McDonel told Gastropped. “And they wanted to change it. They wanted to come up with a hot meal that was based in the Andin ingredients and tap the Andin Geovida’s focus to make a unique, and especially high -end meal.”
Since the chefs in Lima worked to raise local ingredients, Quino began to show in the white table cloth restaurants, in a pre -packaged bag on the market shelf, and even in a famous beer. Quino’s profile gradually increased among the wealthy followers, but also the global foods, who, instead of French cuisine, sought to eat “authentic” and “traditional” food.
The important thing is that the price began to be implemented – and it was influenced by the belief that Quinova could have food to lift the farmers in Altplano.
All this pace targeted its peak in 2013, in which thousands of Buddhist bowls and super food salads were beating. Quino showed in Greenola and Cookies and Chocolate and Microwave Dinner – and its market prices have literally doubled between 2013 and 2014. Will the local farmers, the descendants of the communities who raised Quino thousands of years ago, benefit from the new grain reputation? Listen to the latest gastropped event.
