Marleeta F. Basey

Marleeta F. Basey, who passed away at the age of 66 in 2009, had been milling flour and making 100-percent whole meal bread for over 25 years by the time she wrote the book "Flour Power" that was published in 2004. In the beginning, her bread was heavy, earthy and toothsome. After many trials, many errors and much research (including a review of cook books from the early 1900s), she learned how a few "secret" ingredients could turn her whole meal bombs into fluffy, light, flavorful loaves without adding white flour or commercial gluten. The most secret of ingredients, it turned out, was the wheat that she milled into flour.