Rusyn Grain and Staple Foodways

Specialised

Rye and oats first, because they tolerate cold, wet and acid soil; barley for groats and soup; buckwheat, which is not a grass and grows on exhausted ground; millet in older records; wheat as the festival grain, not the everyday one; and maize, a post-Columbian arrival, on the warm lowland of Transcarpathia and throughout the Pannonian settlements.