Glorious Grasses: The Grains - OUT OF PRINT by Meredith Sayles Hughes; E. Thomas Hughes
	ISBN-10:   0822528312 ISBN-13:   9780822528319 Publisher:   Lerner Publishing Group Series:   Plants We Eat Ser. Edition:   illustrated Category:   Agriculture, Grains Group, Nutrition Pub. Date:   July 1998 Pages:   104 Format:   Library Binding Grades:   6 to 9
Subjects
CEREAL PRODUCTS COOKERY (CEREALS) GRAIN_JUVENILE LITERATURE
Description/Notes
Discusses how humans have cultivated and used various grains, including wheat, rice, corn, millet, oats, barley, and rye and the nutritional value of these cereal products. Includes recipes. #Includes index.#Discusses how humans have cultivated and used various grains, including wheat, rice, corn, millet, oats, barley, and rye and the nutritional value of these cereal products. *Spotlighted in Booklist as an 'established series that continue[s] to turn out titles of high quality and appeal.' This lively science series serves up a cornucopia of information on a variety of edible plants. Explore topics ranging from where the plants originated; how they were first cultivated; how they're currently grown, processed, and sold; to how they're eaten around the world and what their scientific applications are. Each book includes cross-sectional diagrams of the focus plants, literary quotes, nutritional information, sidebars, recipes, and activities. Supports the national science education standards Unifying Concepts and Processes: Systems, Order, and Organization; Unifying Concepts and Processes: Evolution and Equilibrium; Unifying Concepts and Processes: Form and Function; and Life Science as outlined by the National Academics of Science and endorsed by the National Science Teachers Association. A description of the history, cultivation, processing, & dietary importance of wheat, rice, corn, millet, barley, oats, & rye.