Amazon.com description: Product Description: "A cooking book devoted exclusively to cooking with wholegrain flour is such an old idea it's brand new. Up to 1850 there was no other kind of cooking book." Cooking with Wholegrains is a return to the more natural, healthier ways of cooking from America's colonial days and later on, before the advent of synthetically enriched foods. As an introduction to Mildred Orton's simple but hearty recipes for breads, biscuits, cakes, casseroles, cookies, griddle cakes, and muffins, Vrest Orton explains what wholegrains are and why they are superior to today's commercial flours, meals, and breakfast cereals. Now in its nineteenth printing, Cooking with Wholegrains ranks as one of America's most important grain cookbooks; it both precedes the current health craze and remains true to its present concerns.