Every Wednesday I go to the charter school that we have in our little town and I teach a culinary arts class to the secondary students. So we've been doing all kinds of crazy things.

You know, of course I'm going to bring my unorthodox, unconventional, kind of old-fashioned philosophy into that class.

So they're getting things that are definitely above and beyond a typical culinary arts curriculum.

But anyway, this past couple of weeks,

we've been working on a lot of different baking

and baked goods.

And most recently, we made pancakes from scratch.

A lot of the kids had only ever used a pancake mix and so I was excited to show them how easy it is to make pancakes and of course I brought my wheat grain mill because why not and I wanted just to introduce them to this idea of you can start weaving in different

flowers into these recipes and so when I brought this out to the kids a lot of them didn't know what a wheatberry

was they had no idea you could grind this strange When I brought this out to the kids, a lot of them didn't know what a wheatberry was.

They had no idea you could grind this strange little grain and turn it into flour.

And we talked about the differences.

And I was like, you know, what are your guys' perceptions of whole wheat?

What do you think of it?

And they're like, it's gross. You know, they're like, we've tried it before in different recipes and it's disgusting and it tastes bad. So I'm like, you know, noted. I think I'm going to change your mind, but also I, you know, kind of tucked it away in the back of my own mind that I think that's the perception that a lot of people have around whole wheat.

And that was definitely my perception around whole wheat.

I've shared a little bit of my story here on the show before, but my mom got really into whole grains in the 90s,

kind of the first wave of that whole trend.

And so she would do 100% whole wheat loaves in her Bosch mixer

and she tried so hard and they just weren't great,

you know, and not her fault, it just she was using this hard red wheatberries and it was no

all-purpose flour to cut it or help it and you know we'd make peanut butter and jelly

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