Life in the kitchen can be a real grind — and, in this case, that’s a good thing. By grinding your own whole-grain flour, you open the door to a new world of tastes and textures, with the added ...

Here in the Southeast, we locavores have it pretty good. In a land where a bounty of food grows year-round, it’s a heck of a lot easier to eat locally than it is in, say, Minnesota. Even so, there are ...

If you’re ever invited to dinner at Kirk and Maryanne Welton’s house and there’s a fresh-baked loaf of whole-wheat bread on the table, you’ll know it’s a special occasion. Maryanne not only baked the ...

As I’m writing this, I’m stuffing a delicious piece of toast into my face and crunching on it rather happily. That might not seem like a big deal for most people, but for those of us who have to ...

There’s something timeless about the sound of grain turning into flour. At Idie’s Farm, we love milling our own wheat berries ...

Here's a 30,000-year-old recipe: Dig up cattails. Remove starchy roots and rhizomes. Peel outer layer, dry, and grind into flour with two rocks. Mix with water and cook. Bon appetit! The mortars are ...

Hunter-gatherers used this stone as a combination pestle and grinder to make flour from oats and other grains, says Marta Mariotti Lippi, a professor of botany at the University of Florence in Italy.