Everyone is talking about quinoa everywhere, even the NY Times. It’s the in thing to eat, apparently. There were half a dozen different varieties of quinoa on the shelf in one of the supermarkets I went to recently. (On the other hand they had no pearl barley, which is what I was really looking for.)

So I tried it. And it was like eating styrofoam. Everybody says it has a “delicious mild nutty flavour”, and I thought it had almost no flavour at all. Perhaps it tastes good when compared to parboiled white rice… But it’s got no chance in competition with thai rice, or brown rice, or pearl barley.

It gets some plus points, though, for looking like tiny worms when cooked.

Are you a quinoa fan? Am I doing something wrong?