NY Times - Quinoa's Global Success Creates Quandary at Home

By Simon Romero
March 19, 2011

"LA PAZ, Bolivia — When NASA scientists were searching decades ago for an ideal food for long-term human space missions, they came across an Andean plant called quinoa. With an exceptional balance of amino acids, quinoa, they declared, is virtually unrivaled in the plant or animal kingdom for its life-sustaining nutrients. But while Bolivians have lived off it for centuries, quinoa remained little more than a curiosity outside the Andes for years, found in health food shops and studied by researchers — until recently..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/world/americas/20bolivia.html