Posted by admin | Posted in Peru | Posted on 23-09-2009
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The earliest recorded use of the quinoa plant in history that happened about 8 to 9 thousand years ago in the vicinity of Lake Titicaca. There was no evidence Bolivia's Native community cultivation of crops. The ancients were able to improve the fruit of the plant to make larger seeds while taking the outer size smaller. The plant is so versatile that not only ancient people used for food but to hear certain types of diseases as well.
Quinoa was basically prepared and eaten like rice and is one of three basic food of the ancient inhabitants of Peru and Bolivia. The other two are the corn and potatoes. They were also able to get a beer made from fermented quinoa and drank to celebrate the new harvest.
The quinoa plant was so sacred religious rites were held in his honor. The most important rite occurred during the first planting of the seeds of quinoa first for the new season. The Inca emperor (whom they regarded as a god) performed sowing, using a golden taco. The ritual is transmitted from generation to generation and continued until 1532. This year marks the fall of the Incas to the Spanish.
The Spanish army killed the Inca emperor, destroying the cultivation of quinoa and took their lands. The conquerors suppressed all the practices and the use of quinoa, but some of the natives to sneak into the highest parts of land to cultivate quinoa plant secret. People forgot the facility until the 1970s.
Don McKinley and Stephen Gorad were students at a spiritual leader Oscar Ichazo Bolivia. The two mean Quinoa Corporation built in 1983 in Boulder, Colorado, and today is cultivated quinoa in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and the Canadian Prairies. Most of the marketing of quinoa in the U.S. when they come from South America.
For more information about the health benefits of quinoa plant, feel free to visit http://www.quinoakitchen.com/
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