Quinua in the Spanish record — described in 1553, discouraged, and returned

Cieza de León's Seville imprint of 1553 describes quinua as a staple, with its leaf, its height, its two seed colours and the two ways it was eaten; Garcilaso places it in the province where maize will not grow. The same colonial order that printed those descriptions is also, on the account of a 2020 review, what pushed the grain out of urban Andean diets — and the twenty-first-century boom that brought it back is itself contested. All three parts are here, each bound to what states it.