What's with Quinoa

**Serial_Apologist** · 19-04-20, 12:54

Originally posted by richardfinegold View Post

It was the main grain of the Incas. When the Spaniards conquered them they hated the stuff and forced a conversion to corn, but quinoa never dissapeared and because it has all the essential amino acids it became popular for vegetarians.
Surely there must be some irony in European based cultures adopting a food from indigenous people that was almost driven to extinction by Cultural Imperialism?

I imagine there probably are other examples, though I can't think of any at the moment.

**MrGongGong** · 19-04-20, 13:05

This was a great gig

BBC - (none) - Hear And Now - Cut and Splice

https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/hearandnow/pip/jvvj1/

Robert Worby presents Hear and Now's annual electronic music event, co-curated with the Sonic Arts Network. This year the theme is Food, with the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra amplifying raw vegetables, Charles Amirkhanian weaving concrete poetry from favourite food names and Parkinson Saunders playing a quartet for plastic cups. Lee Patterson and Helena Gough create soundscapes from frying eggs and roasting seeds. Plus noise/body art by Randy HY Yau and Sudden Infant.

**oddoneout** · 19-04-20, 15:47

Originally posted by richardfinegold View Post

It was the main grain of the Incas. When the Spaniards conquered them they hated the stuff and forced a conversion to corn, but quinoa never dissapeared and because it has all the essential amino acids it became popular for vegetarians.
Surely there must be some irony in European based cultures adopting a food from indigenous people that was almost driven to extinction by Cultural Imperialism?

The Irish and the potato could be regarded as a twist on that? Adopt a food from an indigenous people and nearly drive themselves to extinction.

What's with Quinoa

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