North American Millets Alliance

North American Millets Alliance(milletsalliance.org)

19 points by num42 23 days ago | 4 comments

schoen 23 days ago |

I guessed correctly what this was about, but then I thought it could also be the name for a group advocating for a formal pillarization of American society (in which different ethnic or religious groups have separate and parallel institutions).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillarisation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millet_(Ottoman_Empire)

decimalenough 23 days ago |

Fun fact: millets originate from East Asia, but have been almost entirely sidelined by rice and wheat. In Japan in particular, it's all rice all the time, and the staple millets (awa, hie and kibi) have been reduced to an occasional component of gokokumai (five grain rice) eaten for vague health reasons.

adrian_b 22 days ago | |

In Europe, during the Middle Ages, a couple of millets were still widespread as minor crops, but even then they were considered as food either for the poor who could not afford other more valuable grains or for poultry.

vi_sextus_vi 22 days ago | |

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Grains

For Japanese, ancient china concept = vaguely healthy

Moreso if it meshes well with the quasi-scientific fad of "whole foods"

There's still stuff made (semi-)exclusively from millet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibi_dango_(millet_dumpling)