With 250 luscious recipes, along with eight pages of color photographs, <I>The Splendid Grain</I> dramatizes how you can incorporate extraordinarily healthful grains into your life without changing your lifestyle.<P>Grains can transform taste and texture in unsurpassed ways like these:<P><UL><LI>Nutty, sweet oats form the delicious crust of fried chicken<P><LI>Piquant quinoa heightens and absorbs the savory juices of gingered lamb<P><LI>Hearty buckwheat becomes a sweet, delicate, Parisian-inspired crepe<P><LI>Thai black sticky rice flavored with coconut makes unforgettable exotic banana dumplings.</UL><P>The natural and native history of each grain is also explored along with its health benefits.