On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 08:21:19 -0500, Bruce K.
> wrote:

>Thanks,
>
>Bruce

Muesli is a loose mixture of uncooked healthy stuff meant to be eaten
as a cereal with milk, whereas granola is usually held together with a
binding agent and baked, forming clusters.

Hey, I just found this...
The history of granola
http://www.foodreference.com/html/artgranola.html

A snippet:
>So, to sum up. Sylvester Graham develops Graham
> flour and Graham Crackers; later, Dr. James C.
>Jackson uses sheets of baked Graham flour, broken
> up, rebaked and broken up again to create "Granula".
>Then Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, a Seventh Day
>Adventist and director of their Battle Creek Sanitarium,
> develops a mix of baked and rebaked whole grains,
> and also calls it "Granula"; is sued by Dr. Jackson,
> renames it Granola, but fails to market it and it never
> becomes a success. Along comes Charles W. Post,
> a patient at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, leaves uncured,
> gets cured by a rival religious system follower, opens
>his own health retreat, and makes his own Granola recipe,
> but calls it Grape Nuts and makes it commercially
>successful. The Granola name is revived by the modern
> health food movement, it becomes a "hippie" health food
> in the 1960's and finally, today granola has gone mainstream.



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