Quinoa: alternatives and connections

An animal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama.

tropical American fern cultivated for its finely divided greyish-green foliage; West Indies and southern Mexico to Peru and Brazil

The name of two plants (Sesamum orientale and S. indicum), originally Asiatic; -- also called oil plant. From their seeds an oil is ex…

A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.

A genus of large American serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico (B. imperator), and the chevalier boa of…

A fragrant evergreen shrub of Chili (Peumus Boldus). The bark is used in tanning, the wood for making charcoal, the leaves in medicine…

The triangular seed used, when ground, for griddle cakes, etc.

A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.

A genus of plants of the Cactus family. They are natives of America, from California to Chili.

ground beef and chili peppers or chili powder often with tomatoes and kidney beans

Of or pertaining to Chili.

See Chili.

A small rodent (Chinchilla lanigera), of the size of a large squirrel, remarkable for its fine fur, which is very soft and of a pearly…

A mineral consisting principally of sulphate of iron; white copperas; -- so called because found in the province of Coquimbo, Chili.

A thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water; food of the porridge kind.

The lamb's-quarters (Chenopodium album).

A genus of herbs (Chenopodium) mostly annual weeds; pigweed.

The East Indian name of the chick-pea (Cicer arietinum) and its seeds; also, other similar seeds there used for food.