{"id":25500,"date":"2011-03-27T16:36:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T16:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/theweekmagazine-quinoa-a-grain-like-superfood\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T22:34:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T05:34:18","slug":"theweekmagazine-quinoa-a-grain-like-superfood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/theweekmagazine-quinoa-a-grain-like-superfood\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-25500 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/theweekmagazine-quinoa-a-grain-like-superfood\/attachment\/25501\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_ligsv0LtVf1qdjbb7o1_500-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theweekmagazine.tumblr.com\/post\/4024574205\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">theweekmagazine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Quinoa, a grain-like superfood, has become so popular in Western markets that Bolivians can no longer afford to eat it. <\/strong>Instead, they\u2019re turning to cheap, processed foods, raising concerns about malnutrition in a poor country where it has long been a problem.<\/p>\n<p>For centuries Bolivians lived off quinoa, and it was \u201clittle more than a  curiosity outside the Andes.\u201d But it has recently caught on in  wealthier countries as a healthy alternative to grains, <a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/article\/index\/213390\/bolivias-quinoa-quandary\"><strong>becoming a  staple at places like Trader Joe\u2019s and Whole Foods.<\/strong><\/a> With demand soaring,  prices have nearly tripled over the past five years. That\u2019s great for  Bolivian farmers. <strong>But it means many Bolivians can no longer afford what  has long been a healthy staple of their diet. <\/strong>Quinoa consumption in  Bolivia has dropped by 34 percent in five years. \u201cThe shift offers a  glimpse into the consequences of rising global food prices and changing  eating habits in both prosperous and developing nations,\u2019 say  Simon Romaro and Sara Shahriari in <em>The New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/article\/index\/213390\/bolivias-quinoa-quandary\">Read more about this problem here<\/a>. What exactly is quinoa, and how do you pronounce it? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: CC BY rusvaplauke<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>theweekmagazine: Quinoa, a grain-like superfood, has become so popular in Western markets that Bolivians can no longer afford to eat it. Instead, they\u2019re turning to cheap, processed foods, raising concerns about malnutrition in a poor country where it has long been a problem. For centuries Bolivians lived off quinoa, and it was \u201clittle more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6Di","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25502,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25500\/revisions\/25502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}