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Published posthumously, The Grains Cookbook is Bert Greene's tribute to the healthy grain with over 400 delectable recipes. Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club's HomeStyle Books, The Quality Paperback Book Club, and Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service. Winner of a 1988 IACP/ Seagrams Food and Beverage Book Award. 95,000…

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This was published in 1988, before anyone had heard of quinoa, and yet there it is: seven pages of the “new” grain. These are homey recipes using barley, bran, and oat bran buckwheat, cornmeal, grits and hominy, millet, oats, different kinds of rice, semolina, amaranth, triticale, and, yes, about fifty pages of healthier wheat.  

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