If cotton was the king of the antebellum South, rice was her queen for the three centuries of her engagement with slavery. With the revamp of Carolina Golden rice and other heirloom varieties and hybrids thereof, the narrative of rice in the South has been centred in the rebirth of one of its most important cash crops as a boutique ingredient.
M.W. Twitty, The cooking gene (2017), 241
The absence of this from kindle disresses me. First physical book I've bought in years.
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