I have some lovely gluten-free friends. Though I am on a strict gluten-lots diets (wink), I love experimenting for my wheatless companions. There are so many beautiful grains with completely different flavors, textures, and baking effects. Wheat gets a lot of the spotlight, and its gluten power is quite incredible for making light, chewy loaves of bread with epic crust. But what about emmer? And buckwheat? And kamut and oats and brown rice and einkorn and barley and rye and spelt and millet and sorghum and teff and amaranth and quinoa? Many of these so-called "ancient grains" are extremely nutritious and very different
