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On a lark, I picked up a box of Einkorn Wheat Berries the other day at a local market and made the salad recipe on the box. It is a great summer salad! Tasty, healthy, light, cool plus easy and fast to make. I'd never heard of Einkorn before; I read it is the "grandaddy of all wheat." It has a nice crunchy mouth feel and a slightly nutty flavor.

Wheat: The wheat of today has been genetically bred to produce exceptionally high yield and is virtually unrecognizable from its original form. The wheat of the mid to late 20th century has especially undergone extreme genetic alterations.

Kamut: The wheat from Biblical times.

Emmer: Also a wheat from Biblical times.

Spelt: The wheat of pre-Biblical times through the Middle Ages.

Einkorn: The great-grandfather of all wheat and was harvested in the wild. It has remained unaltered.