062 Rice - In the Carolina Kitchen

10/19/22 • 29 min

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So many Links this week!
But great places to visit - a blog, a rice foundation, a shop for all things (many things?) Carib - I admit I'm excited about that one. There's not much Caribbean representation on my Global Shopping Street.
But most exciting of all - the exposure of fakes and the possibility of breaking news!
Rice pretends like its a background player - but it's a drama grain.
A savory calas (rice croquette) recipe: https://www.poppytooker.com/calas
Oh - just look up Poppy Tooker, this a New Orleans name of note. (I know the French are the Enemy right now, but its OK) https://www.poppytooker.com/this-weeks-show
Woah - can no longer find the digital version of the Lucayos Cook Book I snagged. Sloppy of me... and it looks like I have a pirated book! As a work published between 1924 and 1978 - it has a 95 year copyright... So I won't be slapping up a PDF. But! When do my bonus episode, I will be providing extensive recipes as quotations, and you'll definitely get the flavor of it.
In the meantime, a fair selection of smaller University libraries seem to have a copy of those book, so you can check it out.
Modern-ish take on Carolina Snowballs with Turnspit & Table
https://www.turnspitandtable.com/uncategorized/carolina-snowballs-re-do/
Anson Mills - https://www.ansonmills.com/
Get some Carolina Gold - regular rice, or rice grits - https://www.ansonmills.com/products
Carolina Gold Foundation - http://www.thecarolinagoldricefoundation.org/
But you can buy the red rice from Trinidad! Caribshopper:
https://caribshopper.com/blogs/caribshopper-blog/moruga-hill-rice-the-red-grain-with-a-great-story-and-taste
Links to the better red rice information:
Michael Twitty - https://leitesculinaria.com/325844/writings-the-history-of-rice.html
Abena Offeh-Gyimah - https://abenaoffehgyimah.com/blog/oryza-glaberrima-and-the-decline-of-indigenous-african-foods
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
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American Rice - Voyage the First
Some of the rice might have started from Asia, but all of it came directly from Africa.
But which side - the West, or from Madagascar?
How from Madagascar - isn't that all the way over on the east side?
Yes to all of this. The who and the when - kindof - are all covered. And learn what a monocot is. You'll have to look up the spelling of cotyledon on your own. Oh wait. You can see how it's spelled there.
But a video to look at Old Colonial or at least Early American rice field sight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3fcEvGmmXE
And check out the blog for Old School Navigation
You have to wait until next week to get the foods - but this week, learn how rice got here.
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
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This week the ox stops being fancy food for fancy people and becomes workaday food for city people and sailors alike. But it also became manly party food all at the same time.
I explain why its ox, not cow - but will be cow again.
Here's Bugs Bunny in the Bull Fighting Ring - nostalgia or new? Just watch it. It's all fun.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7yzp40
Not up on yourColonial History of New Spain? Here's a cheat sheet on Coronado - https://www.desertusa.com/desert-trails/coronado-expedition-cibola.html
And one on Oñate (just wikipedia, but hey I have deadlines here) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_O%C3%B1ate
And the Boat Stuck reference was to the Ever Forward getting stuck in the Chesapeake in March 2022 (for 5 weeks!). This of course was the sister ship to the notorious Ever Given (or the Evergreen Shipping Lines) that got stuck in the Suez Canal in March 2021. Leading me to be #Team "Beware the Tides of March".
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/ever-forward-chesapeake-bay-boat-shipping-supply-chain.html
But the Beefsteak makes it first appearance as do Beefeaters, Paddington Bear & the first appearance of Barbecue.
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @THoAFood
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