Wheat

On October 18, 2007; SHIRLEY BURNS WHEAT (nee Cochran) of Bel Air, MD; beloved wife of Gene Wheat, died suddenly. She was 72 and was a lifelong Harford County resident. Shirley was the daughter of the late Edna Burns and Clyde Cochran of Fallston, MD. She was a devoted mother to her daughters, Sharon Levin (and husband Emanuel),of Owings Mills, MD., Cheryl Gregson,of Miami, FL, and Leslie Spencer ( and husband Jody), of Monticello, FL. Shirley is also survived by her sister, Ruth Ann Bennett(and husband Harold)

This year's Super Bowl features two teams -- and cities -- with much in the way of grudges. But that won't stop fans from creating them. Fans can start whipping themselves into a proper frenzy right now by sharing their love for either Baltimore or San Francisco -- and Wheat Thins -- via Twitter and or Instagram. Baltimore fans should simply Tweet or post #BAL #MUSTHAVEWHEATTHINS from now through Sunday. San Francisco fans have to tweet .... something else. Fans from the city with the "loudest fans" will be eligible to have 10 boxes of assorted snacks delivered to their door on Super Bowl Sunday.

Spice maker McCormick & Co. is voluntarily recalling fajita seasoning mixes containing wheat and milk ingredients that weren't listed on the packaging. The 1.12-ounce packages were distributed to grocery stores nationally beginning Feb. 15. The packages have the UPC Code 5210002121 and best buy dates of JAN 16 12 CH and JAN 16 12 CH. People with allergies to wheat or milk may have allergic reactions if they consume the seasoning. However, the Sparks-based company said no illnesses have been reported.

Why is the "100 Days of Real Food" family so annoying? That's a real question. The 100 Days family is not universally annoying and they're not motitaved by avaraice or gluttony or anything ojbectionable. Far from it.  So, what is about them? Why did this post on Civil Eats make me want to hose them down with grape soda? Take this visit to the grandparents, when Mom turned suspicious about the whole-wheat pasta her father was making: "...I had to resort to digging through the trash to find and inspect the empty box of pasta.

On May 22, 2004, MARY MARGARET(nee Rosendale) WHEAT; beloved wife of William H. Wheat; devoted mother of Robert W. Wheat, Patricia Morrow and William T. Wheat; loving grandmother of Colleen and Andrew Wheat, Brian and Christy Morrow and Hannah Wheat; dear sister of Agnes, Henry and John "Jack" Rosendale. Friends may call at the family owned Evans Chapel of Memories - Parkville, on Tuesday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. A Funeral Liturgy will be held on Wednesday 11 A.M., at St. Joseph's Catholic Church - Fullerton.

LOLA ODESSA WHEAT, 89, of Philadelphia, formerly of Baltimore. The burial will now take place in Tohickon Union Cemetery, Perkasie, PA.

Services for Dr. Gordon A. Wheat, a chiropractor on the Eastern Shore for more than 30 years, will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Moore Funeral Home in Denton.Dr. Wheat, who was 71 and lived in Denton, died yesterday of pneumonia at the Memorial Hospital in Easton.He began practicing in 1952 in Sharptown and moved to Denton in 1955, practicing there until his retirement in 1986, the last several years with his son, Dr. Gordon F. Wheat. Born in Granite and a 1952 graduate of the Columbia College of Chiropractic in Baltimore, he served in the Army Air Forces in the Pacific during World War II.In addition to his son, of Denton, his survivors include a daughter, Nancy W. Brinsfield of Leonardtown; two brothers, Mervin and Nevin Wheat, both of Baltimore; and three grandchildren.

WASHINGTON -- A federal trade panel ruled yesterday that a flood of Canadian wheat shipments to the United States is crippling U.S. farm programs and said imports should be curbed.The decision by the International Trade Commission is seen as a victory for the Clinton administration, which sought restrictions. The finding could strengthen the hand of top U.S. trade and agricultural officials in resolving differences with Canada over trade in wheat and other agricultural goods.In its decision, the bipartisan panel held that the surge in durum wheat imports over the past four years drove down wheat prices in the United States, increased U.S. government subsidies and requires retaliatory restrictions, such as quotas or tariffs.

On February 14, 2007, IRENE BELLE WHEAT (nee Wolverton), beloved wife of the late James F. Wheat, devoted mother of Carolyn Dunmyer and her husband Bruce and Irene Hall and her husband Bill; loving grandmother of J.B. Dunmyer, Gabbie DeTora, Stephanie Johnson and Wendy Langlois. Also survived by six great-grandchildren. A funeral service will be held at the family owned Ruck Towson Funeral Home, Inc., 1050 York Road (beltway exit 26) on Saturday at 9 A.M. Interment Woodlawn Cemetery. Memorial contributions to the American Heart Association will be appreciated.

Behind the new U.S.-Canadian wheat agreement, which ostensibly averts a trade war at the expense of American pasta eaters, lurk hyper-costly federal farm subsidies that hit taxpayers coming and going. Consider: the federal government generously doles out $1.9 billion a year to wheat farmers to support the market price of their crop. At the same, good old Uncle Sucker spends another $1 billion a year to encourage farm exports that tend to drive down the price of wheat.This is part of a very big business.

Spice maker McCormick & Co. is voluntarily recalling fajita seasoning mixes containing wheat and milk ingredients that weren't listed on the packaging. The 1.12-ounce packages were distributed to grocery stores nationally beginning Feb. 15. The packages have the UPC Code 5210002121 and best buy dates of JAN 16 12 CH and JAN 16 12 CH. People with allergies to wheat or milk may have allergic reactions if they consume the seasoning. However, the Sparks-based company said no illnesses have been reported.

A minor revolution, in the form of cheese lasagna, had come to the cafeteria at Hampstead Hill Academy, but the struggle had only just begun. Kitchen staff accustomed to heating pre-made meals had to wrestle with sticky pasta noodles, then brace for balky eaters on this, the first "Meatless Monday" for Hampstead Hill and other Baltimore public schools. On Mondays throughout the year, cafeteria menus will be all vegetarian - a first for city schools and, it's believed, any large school system nationwide.

BEIJING -With the global economic crisis producing unrest in rural areas, Chinese authorities have taken emergency action in wheat-growing regions that are suffering from their worst drought in 50 years. The three eastern provinces that account for more than half of the country's wheat production have seen winter rainfall levels as much as 80 percent lower than normal, the National Meteorological Center reported. In a sign of how seriously the government is taking the drought, state-run news media reported that the State Council, the highest level of executive authority, discussed the crisis Thursday.

Want to save sodium on your hot cereal? If you choose Cream of Wheat Enriched Farina, you'll get 85 milligrams per serving, before you add your own salt. Farina Original Creamy Hot Wheat Cereal, on the other hand, cooks just as fast but has no sodium. (We found the latter at Eddie's of Roland Park.) Kate Shatzkin Cream of Wheat Enriched Farina Per serving (3 tablespoons - makes 1 1/4 cup) 120 calories 4 grams protein 0 grams fat 0 grams saturated fat 23 grams carbohydrate 1 gram fiber 0 milligrams cholesterol 85 milligrams sodium Farina Original Creamy Hot Wheat Cereal Per serving (3 tablespoons - makes 1 cup)

NAIROBI, Kenya - Pirates prowling the treacherous waters off the Horn of Africa hijacked another merchant ship yesterday, at least the second in four days, amid growing international concern about a 21st-century version of an ancient security threat. The Hong Kong-flagged cargo ship Delight and its 25-member crew were captured late yesterday morning off the coast of Yemen, Beijing's New China News Agency reported, citing the official Maritime Search and Rescue Center. The vessel was hauling 36,000 metric tons of wheat to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, the news service reported.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Zimbabwean authorities confiscated a truck loaded with 20 tons of American food aid for poor schoolchildren and ordered that the wheat and pinto beans aboard to be handed out to supporters of President Robert G. Mugabe at a political rally instead, the American ambassador said yesterday. "This government will stop at nothing, even starving the most defenseless people in the country - young children - to realize their political ambitions," said the ambassador, James D. McGee, in an interview.

It doesn't really make sense that the United States, the world's premier wheat-growing nation, should be importing wheat gluten from China. But after American quotas on wheat gluten were removed in 2000, the price fell by half and imports poured in. U.S. producers can't compete; the surviving domestic firms are able to supply only about 20 percent of the demand. Now it turns out that one way two Chinese firms were able to sell their gluten so cheaply was by adulterating it with melamine and perhaps other industrial chemicals.

Nutritionists advise us to eat more bread, pasta and grains. However, besides rice, cornmeal and grits, there don't seem to be many grains around to vary our accompaniments or entrees.One grain deserving more attention is bulgur wheat, which has a rich, nutty taste and is an important ingredient in Middle Eastern cuisines. The most famous bulgur dish in the West is tabbouleh, a Lebanese salad with parsley, mint and tomatoes. But there are many ways to use this versatile grain.In Jerusalem, I've had peppery bulgur wheat topped with spicy meat stew, a specialty of the Kurdish Jews.

LOLA ODESSA WHEAT, 89, of Philadelphia, formerly of Baltimore. The burial will now take place in Tohickon Union Cemetery, Perkasie, PA.

Motivated by the skyrocketing price of groceries, I took a stab at growing my own salad and baking my own bread. My efforts did not go well. The salad, made from spinach plants that I had nursed through the winter, was meager and tough. The leaves did not seem to have many flavors. The bread, which I made using a no-knead recipe, was disappointing. It was dense, flat and the crust tasted of cornmeal. I suspect that future loaves would have been better. Bread making, like essay writing, usually improves with subsequent efforts.