Whole Rye Salad with Bourboned Currants and Caraway

Rye is the mysterious dark horseman of the grain world. Like wheat berries, rye berries are a bit of a pain to cook: you need to soak them overnight, but they are worth it: rich and nutty and so healthy. Rye is super-high in fibre and low in gluten, so it is a good friend to the perennial dieter.

Useless grain facts: Rye was not always valued as a foodstuff – in fact, Pliny reckoned that it was a ‘very poor food and only serves to avert starvation’. And one’s normally carb-loving be