Today I learned: farro

[fred_mouse]

One of the things I encountered when travelling was farro, which I couldn't find a translation for in the dictionaries I was carrying, but looked at and said 'that's a cereal, I'm not eating that'. Which turned out to be the correct response, because we looked it up today.

For other english speakers who haven't encountered it, farro is a term that covers any/all of spelt, emmer, and einkorn, all of which are Triticum species, as is wheat. I saw it cooked in a small (single serve) container in a supermarket fridge, and I saw it as part of a salad.

Mods: from the posting guidelines, I couldn't work out what the title should be, or whether this counted as a valid post. Apologies if I've stuffed up.

Comments

[runpunkrun]

It's a perfectly valid post with a helpful title! Thanks for sharing what you learned (or didn't) while travelling.

[fred_mouse]

Oh good! I was having an overly literal day, looked at the posting guidelines, and went 'whelp, do it anyway' :)

[lunabee34]

I think this is a very important heads up for people who don't know.

[fred_mouse]

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