The Epic Story of Rice: Gods, Conquests, and a Food Trip Through History

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  @OTRontheroad · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

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• NA

  @NaturalBornSupaFiend · 1 year ago

  That sucks that guy ruined self delivering ready-to-eat sentient rice for the rest of us by falling asleep.

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• RO

  @Ronoskiii · 2 years ago

  1 hour of rice lore? I&apos;m watching every second of it.

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• SE

  @seasidescott · 2 years ago

  My Filipino family, 50 yrs in the USA, won&apos;t eat without rice. For fun I made a standard &quot;white&quot; Thanksgiving dinner with turkey, mashed potatoes, etc, and left off putting out rice only to watch them fidget and look around. After a minute of enjoying their anxiety (but them politely saying nothing) I put out a dish of steamed rice and and everyone smiled and relaxed.

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• DE

  @devdassanzo2002 · 2 years ago

  Eating a bowl of rice while watching history about rice 🍚🥢

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• LA

  @lamYouYouAreM3 · 2 years ago

  I love that you stepped in to help the gentleman make fufu and then ate the food with your hands per their custom. The compassion and cultural IQ is phenomenal

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• CA

  @careyellefunk8569 · 1 year ago

  There is a wild long grain rice native to a small area in Canada’s prairie. The natives there have revived their harvesting culture

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• BR

  @bradmowreader5983 · 2 years ago

  I live in Sakon Nahkon province Thailand and they just harvested the sticky rice in the field across from my house. Rice is spread out to dry in all the flat places and It produces a wonderful aroma. It&apos;s a simple life with only 2 kinds of food. Rice and things that are eaten with rice.

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  @thekingminn · 2 years ago

  Now you got to make a video about tea.

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• HI

  @Highbrookgardens · 2 years ago

  I’m from Guyana 🇬🇾 where I grew up there are more rice fields than anything else.

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• CH

  @chipkyle5428 · 1 year ago

  Thank you so much, from the fourth generation to produce Rice on the same family farm in Southwest Louisiana. We with a father/son team produce about 3 1/2 million pounds a year of rough rice (Patty Rice) in a rotation with crawfish production every other year. About 85,000 acres of rice are produced each year in my parish (county). I would say the annual consumption of rice in Southwest Louisiana is 85 pounds per person per year. Often rice is eating twice a day here. Usually with meat gravy. Gumbo, jambalaya, rice, dressing, red beans and rice, stuffed in Boudin, etc. The South Carolina origin is the story we were taught. In further research, I learned that Rice was in Southwest Louisiana in the late 1700s as a self-consumed crop, before modern plows, threshing eq., or pump irrigation. It was called “Providence Rice” because the crop relied on God‘s providence of rain and acceptable weather. The Acadians farmed this early Rice. They also drove wild Spanish cattle to New Orleans for the beef market. With the influx of Midwestern farmers in the 1800s and the completion of a railway in 1881 the modern rice industry took off in SWLA. It’s a big agriculture industry today. We ship a lot of rice out of the Lake Charles LA port through the Gulf of Mexico to world markets. I’m 76 years old. The fifth and sixth generation are taking over my management. Thanks.

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• AM

  @americamoneyexplained · 2 years ago (edited)

  My late grandpa grew red rice in his garden in Sierra Leone. I&apos;m an avid cook, just like he was, so I was curious to try when I met him for the first time when I was 16. Eating his red rice gave me memories that never happened. The taste felt very nostalgic. I miss my grandpa

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