Chris Wright pours a bowl of wheat kernels into a stone grain mill, an appliance about the size of a coffee maker. With the flick of a switch, the mill rumbles to life, quickly turning the pebbly, ...

Pottstown is known in the history books for its production of iron and steel. However, it was known during the Colonial and Federal years for a different type of commerce. Largely unknown today, ...

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CHATTANOOGA, TENN. — Grain Craft has acquired Central Milling, Inc., one of the largest suppliers of organic flour in the United States. Characterizing the transaction as a partnership, Grain Craft ...

ELMORE — As one of the oldest professions, grain-milling has undergone many revolutions over the years. The latest one is underway in a shed next to the bread bakery that Andrew Heyn and Blair Marvin ...

Grain elevators dot the Midwest landscape, but many of them are no longer used for their original purpose. Reliable Street, on the northwest edge of Ames, runs parallel to the train tracks for two ...

Roe Sie gained insight into ancient food customs and making better-tasting fresh bread after he decided to try milling his own grain. In Deuteronomy, we’re told that the one thing you can’t take as ...

How is a cook to decide among the 30 different kinds of tortilla chips in the snack aisle — white, yellow, red, multigrain, blue, seasoned with lime, chiles, in a befuddling range of shapes and sizes?

“Unemployment is the only thing we have here,” declared Dumel Deralus, smiling grimly as he sat in the shell of a concrete building that will soon be a new and expanded home for the Organization for ...