[Sca-cooks] Taking one for the team.
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at att.net
Tue Jan 7 08:25:28 PST 2014
> Farro is an ancient grain, but I don't recall reading much of it in
> period.
>
> Kathleen Roberts
Modernly, farro is used to refer to einkorn, emmer, and spelt, or a mixture
of those grains. The Latin root is "far" which is usually defined as "emmer
wheat," the primary grain of the Roman Empire. The period works tend to
differentiate between the grains or lump them under the general term, corn.
I suspect that farro is a term that was created after the grains to which it
refers became marginalized.
Bear
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