Notes from the Garden, Cereals

Cereals write up come from Chef G’s Notes. when one hears the word cereal, what comes to mind first – is it breakfast bowl or grain field?

Exactly. Some say that I take grains to seriously…but I can’t wheat to write about them.

“The word cereal comes from the Ceres, The roman name for the Greek goddess of harvest and refers to the seed or grains of cultivated grasses.

Cereals are the most important group of the vegetable kingdom. In many parts of the world, cereals are the staple food diet, providing at least 2/3 of a persons energy and protein intake.

The kind of grain used as food varies in different parts of the world. But in temperate or dry, subtropical climates, wheat is the largest crop.

In moist, hot climates rice takes its place in addition in soils or climate of Europe where wheat wont thrive, in such oat, barley and rye are grown, and in warmer moist climates, maize or corn is an important grain.

The word ‘cereal’ as now often as a general name, for the many varieties of ready made cooked, flaked, shredded of puffed breakfast foods which are mainly made from wheat, corn and maize oats with various addition of malt sugar