Not known to many, the province of Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT), Indonesia, hosts a well-grounded and powerful community-led food movement that aims to bring into fore neglected traditional knowledge and sustainable practices. The key is sorghum. Sorghum, a traditional and principal food crop of this province in the ancient times, more nutritionally dense and available, and broadly adaptable in hot and dry agroecologies, has been reduced to animal fodder. In fact, eating other staple grains that is not rice has been equated to being economically vulnerable. This thinking is rooted in the national rice program introduced during the Suharto regime in the late 60s that both altered the cultivation and consumption of sorghum and other local crops such as millet, barley, and corn in NTT.