
Barley, the Second Grain
As with Yaakov and Esav—and with Ephraim and Menashe—our second grain is really our first. Wheat may be preferred, but there is no food more
As with Yaakov and Esav—and with Ephraim and Menashe—our second grain is really our first. Wheat may be preferred, but there is no food more
In Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself,” a child asks the poet, “What is the grass?” Whitman doesn’t know any more than the child, but makes