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Modern wheat vs Ancient Wheat

Modern wheat vs Ancient Wheat

Simplicity Coimbatore, What is Gluten ? </a   Triticum aestivum is also known as bread wheat. It is a cultivated wheat species. What most of us know to be wheat/whole wheat in the form of breads, packaged flours  and other wheat based products are from this strain of wheat. Wikipedia states that “About 95% of […]

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Sour dough bread

Sour dough bread

Simplicity Coimbatore , Ancient art of bread making , sourdough bread   What we know of the bread making process today consists of using one important ingredient; baker’s yeast !  And yet that is not how it was made in ancient times. Bread making dates back to a time even before it could be documented […]

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Ragi (finger millet)

Ragi (finger millet)

Simplicity Coimbatore , Special harvest , Ragi The importance of the harvest festival has been ingrained into us as early back as my memory goes. It’s not like the significance was explained to us in words, we understood merely by watching.The rituals exhibit a sense of reverence rather than only a celebratory feeling. It is […]

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