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Kiwicha, as amaranth is known today in the Andes, was one of the staple foodstuffs of the Incas.
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Amaranthus, collectively known as amaranth, is a cosmopolitan genus of annual or short-lived perennial plants.
The ultimate root of " amaranth " is the Greek ( amarantos ), " unfading ," with the Greek word for " flower ," ἄνθος ( anthos ), factoring into the word's development as " amaranth.
* Amaranthus acutilobus – sharp-lobe amaranth ; is a synonym of Amaranthus viridis
Although amaranth was cultivated on a large scale in ancient Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru, nowadays it is only cultivated on a small scale there, along with India, China, Nepal, and other tropical countries ; thus, there is potential for further cultivation in those countries, as well as in the U. S. In a 1977 article in Science, amaranth was described as " the crop of the future.
Compared to other grains, amaranth is unusually rich in the essential amino acid lysine Common grains such as wheat and corn are comparatively rich in amino acids that amaranth lacks ; thus, amaranth and other grains can complement each other.
In cooked and edible forms, amaranth is competitive with wheat germ and oats-higher in some nutrients, lower in others.
In Indonesia and Malaysia, leaf amaranth is called bayam, while the Tagalogs in the Philippines call the plant kilitis or " kulitis ".
The root of mature amaranth is a popular vegetable.
In East Africa, amaranth leaf is known in chewa as bonongwe, and in Swahili as mchicha, as terere in Kikuyu, Meru and Embu ; and as telele in Kamba.
In Greece, green amaranth ( Amaranthus viridis ) is a popular dish and is called vlita or vleeta.
There is also a synthetic dye that has been named " amaranth " for its similarity in color to the natural amaranth pigments known as betalains.
Palmer amaranth is among the " top five most troublesome weeds " in the southeast of the United States and has already evolved resistances to dinitroanilines and acetolactate synthase inhibitors.
: An amaranth planted in a garden near a Rose-Tree, thus addressed it: " What a lovely flower is the Rose, a favorite alike with Gods and with men.
* Amaranth flour is a flour produced from ground amaranth grain.
" A milpa is a field, usually but not always recently cleared, in which farmers plant a dozen crops at once including maize, avocados, multiple varieties of squash and bean, melon, tomatoes, chilis, sweet potato, jícama, amaranth, and mucana .... Milpa crops are nutritionally and environmentally complementary.
Corn is able to pop because, like amaranth grain, sorghum, quinoa and millet, its kernels have a hard moisture-sealed hull and a dense starchy interior.
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The main ingredient is a leaf vegetable, traditionally either amaranth ( known by many local names including callaloo or bhaaji ), taro or Xanthosoma.
Halogeton glomeratus is a species of flowering plant in the amaranth family known by the common names saltlover, Aral barilla, and halogeton.
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Another important use of amaranth throughout Mesoamerica was to prepare ritual drinks and foods.
They fasted or ate very little ; a statue of the god was made out of amaranth ( huautli ) seeds and honey, and at the end of the month, it was cut into small pieces so everybody could eat a little piece of the god.
After the Spanish conquest, cultivation of amaranth was outlawed, while some of the festivities were subsumed into the Christmas celebration.
Generally, above 15 % amaranth grain flour, there were significant differences in the evaluated sensory qualities and the high amaranth-containing product was found to be of unacceptable palatability to the population sample that evaluated the baked products.
The word was applied to amaranth because it did not soon fade and so symbolized immortality.
In ancient Greece, the amaranth ( also called chrysanthemum and helichrysum ) was sacred to Ephesian Artemis.
Protein content was boosted by adding the gene AmA1 from the grain amaranth.
The grape flavor was eliminated in 1976 because of health concerns about the red dye amaranth ( FD & C Red # 2 ), a suspected carcinogen.
After the first amaranth harvest, Libo was, like Pipo before him, asked to bring Leaf-eater to the third life, and, like his father, refused, thinking that he was saving Leaf-eater's life.
When a blood hunt was to be declared, it was customary to send the victim a flower of amaranth a week in advance.
: Domesticated crops such as maize, amaranth, beans, squash and cotton were grown in terraced fields, and vital water was dammed and flowed to edible wild plants such as beeweed, cattail, sedges, ground cherry, milkweed, and wolf berry.
The idol of Huitzilopochtli was modeled from amaranth seeds held together with honey and human blood.
* The Lesser Habit was in amaranth purple and pale gold.
* The Lesser Habit was in amaranth purple and pale gold.
This habit had amaranth velvet breeches, waistcoat coat with pale gold buttons and piping and cuffs and a pale gold satin tasseled sash around the waist, over which was worn an amaranth purple satin mantle lined with pale gold satin and with a pale gold collar.
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Oca, ulluco and amaranth seed are other foods claimed to be a staple in Andean history.
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Several species are raised for amaranth " grain " in Asia and the Americas.
Ancient amaranth grains still used to this day include the three species, Amaranthus caudatus, Amaranthus cruentus, and Amaranthus hypochondriacus.
As befits its weedy life history, amaranth grains grow very rapidly and their large seedheads can weigh up to 1 kilogram and contain a half-million seeds in three species of amaranth.
To this day, amaranth grains are toasted much like popcorn and mixed with honey, molasses or chocolate to make a treat called alegría, meaning " joy " in Spanish.
( Real hummingbirds feed on amaranth flowers.
Because of its importance as a symbol of indigenous culture, its gluten-free palatability, easy to cook, and its protein particularly well suited to human nutritional needs, interest in grain amaranth ( especially A. cruentus and A. hypochondriacus ) revived in the 1970s.
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Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.
In his stead is a milquetoast version known as `` the corporation ''.
On April 11th he wrote an open letter in The Advocate, making it known `` to the world that Jas. W. Robinson is by his own admission a base liar and a slanderer ''.
What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.
This was accordingly done, and the plight of the grateful Mrs. Morris was much relieved as a result of the generous loan, the amount of which is not known.
In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.
Since more is known about Quiney than about any other acquaintance of Shakespeare in Stratford, his career may be followed to its sudden end in 1602.
In light of the scholarly reappraisals engendered by the higher criticism this is a most remarkable statement, particularly coming from one who was well known for his antifundamentalist views.
Because of the means of publication -- science-fiction magazines and cheap paperbacks -- and because dystopian science fiction is still appearing in quantity the full range and extent of this phenomenon can hardly be known, though one fact is evident: the science-fiction imagination has been immensely fertile in its extrapolations.
Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.
and it should be far better known than it is.
The story of the fatal crash is not fully known.
Now Richards, of course, is known as a deep thinker as baseball managers go.
Since little is known about autism, and almost nothing has been written for the layman, we'd like to share one experienced mother's comments.
First of all, it is now known that Pope John sees the renewal and purification of the Church as an absolutely necessary step toward Christian unity.
Of the handful of painters that Austria has produced in the 20th century, only one, Oskar Kokoschka, is widely known in the U.S..
It is known that at least five towns ( Barrington, Bristol, Narragansett, Newport and Westerly ) place some value on some boats for tax purposes.
As I have repeatedly stated, this provision is much more restrictive than the general law, popularly known as the Buy American Act.
This is a phenomenon familiar to all radio listeners, resulting from reflection of skywave signals at night from the ionized layer in the upper atmosphere known as the ionosphere.
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