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Tuesday, August 2, 2005

Wheat: It’s like taking a colon-cancer pill.

Posted by on August 2 at 10:06 AM

Re: At the Broadway farmer’s market on Sunday…

I bought a loaf of cranberry hazelnut bread from this woman who said the bread was made from the second oldest grain in the world, is a pound-and-a-half round (like loaves made thousands of years ago), is wheat free, does not mold, contains no refined sugars, cures cancer, could broker a Middle East peace deal, etc.

I love that woman! It’s amazingly easy to get her to pontificate about the evils of gluten and the magic of her emmer grain. Everything else is pure toxins, you know. Her speeches alone are worth her steep bread-and-pastry prices.