Isn’t it wonderful to read something and realize you are not the only one? I love my all-natural stone ground flour from Wade’s Mill. It tastes amazing, is relatively local, and I get all the wonderful nutrients of flour that are usually processed out and then chemically added back in. I just finished an article that goes into other people’s quest for real flour, and I must say that I love that these issues are getting more and more national attention.
The article was in the New York Times, and it is called Flour That Has the Flavor of Home. In it, the author looks at a couple of people that are trying to re-start the local wheat market in places that aren’t quite as conducive to growing the normal variety. It is about re-learning what locals knew before they gave up growing wheat and grinding flour because everything became more standardized and homogenized. I loved this article, because I love it when people realize that we’ve thrown out the baby with the bathwater, and we sure did when our country switched over to a far inferior way of growing and processing flour, all for the sake of shelf life and maximized profits at the expense of nutrition, sustainability, and flavor.
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How nice that you have a local source of freshly ground flour. I have to make do with the whole wheat varieties at Trader Joes, which is better than nothing (which is what I consider white processed flour to be!)
I’ve been trying to find a source for local flour, too. Isn’t it frustrating how little wheat is grown in the Eastern US? I think I might have just found a supplier in Vermont, but I need to go up there to check them out.
(PS- I found you by trying to find the processing time for veggie stock, so glad I did!)
What’s going on??? You haven’t blogged in forever. Is everything okay? How is the pregnancy and how are you feeling?
I just discovered your blog last week. I could spend all day reading your posts! They are so interesting and fun! I’ve only gotten as far as mid-November 2007 in trying to read them all. I have to stop myself from sitting too long at the computer catching up on your adventures in the old fashioned. I love the jeans rug and want to make one myself. “Bravo!” to you on pursuing your passions, trying new-but-old things, and making the lives of yourself, your husband and those in your world so much richer by your tenacious curiosity, creativity and adventuresomeness!
I just found your blog, and LOVE it. I hope you will start blogging again really soon.