Millet is mildly sweet nutty and a delicious accompaniment to peas and lentils tiny in size and round in shape these ancient seeds are an interesting alternative to our more common grains but it is a staple food for a third of the worlds population peas on the other hand used to be a staple food in the middle ages by the 17th and 18th centuries it had become popular to eat peas green that is while they are immature and right after they are picked this was especially true in france an