date:Mar 08, 2013
For many years, granola was the lumpy woolen sweater of the food world.
You dipped your spoon into that hearty bowl of oats, nuts and dried fruit in the same way you might slip on a third layer of clothing on a cold morning. Granola has always signified back-to-the-earthiness, the whole-grains ethos that sprouted out of American counterculture in the 1960s and '70s - so much so that its very name became a synonym for hippie living.
Granola could be many things, from a dorm-room staple to a par