A tiny grain, no bigger than a mustard seed, once fed an ancient civilization which stretched from seacoast of Chile to the snow-capped peaks of the Peruvian Andes - the vast Inca Empire.
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The Incas called it Quinoa, the mother grain. So sacred was Quinoa to the Incas that each year the might Inca ruler himself planted the first row of quinoa with a solid gold spade.