The Epic Story of Rice: Gods, Conquests, and a Food Trip Through History
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- If the story of food is the story of people, then the story of rice is the story of food. From the first agricultural "big bang" to the present day, following the path of this simple grass leads to the founding of cities, the construction of empires and the creation of the dishes that would become culinary icons. And it also leads to myths and legends, wars and rebellions and even musical battles. Every culture that cultivates rice has its own origin story, so today our mission is to find the truth, trace its spread and learn the roots of some of history's greatest dishes- and try them, too.
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0:00 - Introduction
1:18 - The World's Most Important Plant
4:56 - The Breakthrough
6:58 - India and China
10:32 - The First Rice Recipe
13:37 - Kheer, Sushi, and Rice Noodles
15:08 - Hanom Cin
16:56 - Mohinga
18:45 - Origin Myths
22:47 - Rice at the Market
25:08 - Cooking with Rice
29:12 - Rice Moves West
32:16 - The National Dish of Jordan
35:42 - The Other Breakthrough
40:44 - Making Fufu
43:37 - Nigerian Lunch
45:52 - Across the Atlantic
49:05 - Thomas Jefferson's Obsession
53:29 - Jambalaya and Gumbo
55:57 - The Vietnam War
57:51 - Conclusion
59:43 - Credits and Post-Credits
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I love these food history videos. Thank you and keep up the amazing work!
Great video and way too much research time for foodies. BUT;
If name justifies origin of Jollof Rice then the decimal numbers definitely originated from Arab since decimal number system is called Arabian Numbers. Wrong, number zero is mostly claimed by Indians due to their high population of smart people but oldest number zero is found in Cambodia temple Angkor Wat. It seems people who built Angkor Wat knew decimal number system then Indians learned from them then Indians taught Arabs and Arabs taught Europeans. Although all people group had some method of counting from time of Eve, regardless of biblical Eve or mitochondrial evolutionary Eve. Men probably didn’t need to count.
As for origin of rice, long grain rice and short grain (sticky) rice probably had different origins. And the Korean researchers were thorough enough to point out domesticated versus wild rice so I do think 15 thousand year old rice from Korea is oldest found so far, but Koreans don’t have enough populations to argue against Chinese or Indians. Some researcher theorized that sticky rice may have been domesticated when Yellow Sea was dry farmland during last Ice Age, and migrated to higher ground as sea level rose up.
I do believe there was multiple modern rice origins based on species like in West Africa, but original rice Eve probably ate was farmed primitively when human weren’t quite Homo Sapiens yet. Who knows who lived in India, China or Yellow Sea.
@@kulkrafts3143 Yeah that Jollof rice looks a lot like Jambalaya. I didn't know Jamaicans have a version of Curry Rice.
Please do history of Bread
I just watched your video. Liked it. Subscribed.
Now I'm "hungry" for a video about potatoes, in the same quality like this video. :)
1 hour of rice lore? I'm watching every second of it.
Same ❤
Real Rice Lore
I just thought the same 😅
Subtle, informative, and oh so wonderful. Thank you
Heck yes
There is a reason why Thais always ask "Gin Khao rue yang" it litterally means "Have you eaten rice yet" but it is actually a greeting. Rice is everything
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in Chinese, we have that saying too as a way to greet friends
It’s a greeting yes, but we are also actually asking if you’ve had something to eat. No one wants to spend time with someone hungry.
We say the same question in Vietnam. With the English word "Rice", rice transfers to many meaning in Vietnamese language: gạo, cơm, nếp, lúc, thóc ..
I was fascinated by the fact that growing up my grandmother used to ask me "gin khao yang/ กินข้าวยัง" all the time, and later in life I learned from my Korean friends that "have you eaten?/ Bab mogeosso?/ 밥 먹았어?" is used in place of "how are you?" It's always intriguing to see through the intertwined threads of culture, language and food how we have more in common with than we differ to each other. If only we focused on that rather than arguments, disputes, war, pride and entitlement...
I'm from Manipur, a small Indian state just neighbouring Myanmar. We are mongoloids very much similar in looks, physical structures, social and ethnic culture to Thais, Myanmaris and other people of the South-East Asia. We too greet each other saying, " Chak charabra ?" meaning 'Have you eaten rice yet?' Very strange pleasantly.
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's a simple life with only 2 kinds of food. Rice and things that are eaten with rice.
I was in northern Laos last November/December at the tail end of the (dry-farmed Indica?) sticky rice harvest, seeing a line of locals with their sickles cutting down and collecting rice stalks on the outskirts of Luang Prabang, lots of cleared paddy fields on the train ride from Louangprabang province to Oudomxay province, and in a Phongsali province Akha village rice grains being spread out on woven mats to dry in the sun by the villagers. I became a fan of sticky rice with grilled sai oua sausages or grilled tilapia stuffed with a folded stalk of lemongrass, in addition to the lao-lao sticky rice whiskey.
A 4 year "aged" basmati with simple butter and salt shoots me to the moon.
" things that are eaten with rice" = a multitude of different kinds of food.
It sounds flipping amazing to me. Someday I very much hope to be allowed to experience that aroma for myself, first hand.
@@joefarangliterally so many things
My Filipino family, 50 yrs in the USA, won't eat without rice. For fun I made a standard "white" 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.
I don’t know why this made me laugh out loud but this is great.
@@OTRontheroad -cuz it's true!
I did that 20 years ago and they still laugh about that time they thought I'd forgotten the rice.
And when I do cook for them they always ask before sitting down if the rice is ready. They don't absolutely trust me, still.
My lola here (SF) for many decades and says only one word in English - but it's a good word - "eat! eat!" and she'd smile from ear to ear as we each wolfed down 20 or so adobo drumsticks.
😂😅🍚👏
Stuffing made with wild rice, mushrooms, onions, parsley, and chestnuts is great for Thanksgiving!
@@riorockers - delicious! but... Filipinos need steamed white rice as their xanax.
My late grandpa grew red rice in his garden in Sierra Leone. I'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
Memories that 'Never happened?
@@scottgibbons2904 yeah, it’s like a phenomenon of something that feels so surreal that, although it was never actually part of one’s past, conjures something deep within. Almost like deja vu but it’s not that.
There is current scientific research and suspicion that our DNA can carry memories or other imprints aside from what was commonly believed.
🌵🏜️ Re; "... memories/ never happened" ...A form of "genetic" memory? in our cultural DNA maybe? Pork/Ham is ...for me. Actually the only meat I eat, or like. Fish, of course. New Orleans.❤
@scottgibbons2984🌵Roots in US gulf states, but born & raised in Wichita, KS where there were NO fish and Beef was the most prevalent meat, even over chicken.
As a half Persian half Chinese (by way of Thailand) this video brings my joy through my whole soul.
Your genetics are half rice.
I don't know how but you can packed so much information in to your videos and still not boring to watch. Thank you for making this channel.
Much appreciated, glad you enjoyed it
Wouldnt less information be more boring?
One thing I was hoping you would mention was that without rice, pasta would not exist. That total staple and pinnacle of Italian cuisine owes its origins to the humble rice noodle
I am from South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Native name "arisi" became rice world over. Not disputing the origin of rice. on whic you have done so much reasearch on. Think it was the trade network Tamils had. Love your vedio and appriciate your effort. One day when I have my own youtube channel, I will make a vegitarian version of each of the recipes in this video.
I am Gujarati auntie. North India like to say "We eat basmati".🔊🎶.
I love south Indian rice grown over there and enjoyed with tomato rasam❤.
Oh im sure it was the Portuguese who picked it up: arisi sounds a lot like arroz
Absolutely amazing history of rice. As a previous chef also I am so happy to see the coverage of so many varieties of rice and locations that it was developing. Thank you for this amazing history. “Have you had your rice today”
The grass family includes all the major cereals, such as wheat, maize, rice, barley, and oats, and most of the minor grains as well, such as rye, common millet, finger millet, teff, and many others that are less familiar. It also includes such economically important species as sugar cane and sorghum.
Also bamboo shoots and Zizania latifolia, also known as Manchurian wild rice (Chinese: 菰 , 茭白, or 小白筍) but grown for its edible stem.
Supposedly, all life form came from single cell organism so it goes beyond grass family. And who knows who first farmed rice? It may have been Neanderthals.
If name justifies origin of Jollof rice then the decimal numbers definitely originated from Arab since decimal number system is called Arabian Numbers. Wrong, number zero is mostly claimed by Indians lately due to their high population of smart people, but oldest number zero is found in Cambodia temple Angkor Wat. It seems people who built Angkor Wat knew decimal number system then somehow Indians learned and taught Arabs, and Arabs taught Europeans. Although all people group had some method of counting from time of Eve, regardless of biblical Eve or mitochondrial evolutionary Eve. Men probably didn’t need to count.
As for origin of rice, long grain rice and short grain (sticky) rice probably had different origins. And the Korean researchers were thorough enough to point out domesticated versus wild rice so I do think 15 thousand year old rice from Korea is oldest found so far, but Koreans don’t have enough populations to argue against Chinese or Indians. Some researcher theorized that sticky rice may have been domesticated when Yellow Sea was dry farmland during last Ice Age, and migrated to higher ground as sea level rose up.
I do believe there was multiple modern rice origins based on species like in West Africa, but original rice Eve probably ate was farmed primitively when human weren’t quite Homo Sapiens yet. Who knows who lived in India, China or Yellow Sea.
Except you are just speculating and not refuse to see genetics. Long grain and short grain rice have practucally the same genetic sequence, hence just one specie. Just like humans might have different colors and eye size but genetically are the same
Grass Lore 🤯
@@kulkrafts3143 As humans evolved southern india and east africa were connected by ice age land bridges.
Animals who migrated knew when the sea and weather was right to migrate, just as they do today. Bipedal primates who had become nomadic just to eat followed herds and even imitates their survival tactics when necessary
The south indians dravidians became bengalis and tamils and the east african zanj in what became meroe and axum shared black skin and kinky hair; and became abyssinians, nubians, Possibly Benin emerged. they had fire and pictographs and were sharing a language based on astronomy/astrology. here ancient ideas of deity emerged.
all worshipped NAGA or serpent deities in some form to celebrate the solar calendar. many flood legends happened all over world in this era
they traveled the seas (or the coasts when ice was high and sea levels were low.
After 26,000 B.C., hominids in at least five places created or received from traders a solar/stellar calendar based in scientific solstices and equinoxes. the star calendar with twelve major places gave us the twelve months, the twelve tribes, etc.
Abraham religions and civilization in Canaan came 20,000 years later!!
This guy does an excellent job of showcasing good food and giving a detailed historical background on it.
And eating it.
🇧🇷🇧🇷 In BRAZIL , brazilians NEED RICE, beans, salad and some meat to eat evey day in order to have a normal food and " survive ".🇧🇷🇧🇷
Just came back from Brazil. Tried your rice with black bean. Honestly I was surprised you eat rice too 😊
I'm really surprised to know Brazilian consumes rice on regularly basis. My previous assumption was that the country is so rich in flora and fauna and it has its own different grain and culture. Something which was influenced by Portuguese, Spain and the West. Seeing all those amazing products from Amazon ranging from fruit, animal and specially recent crops like wheat and soyabean, I was always curious what's Brazilian food culture must be. Thank you for your comment I learnt something new today.
Now you got to make a video about tea.
China vs India, round 2
@@MihaiRUdeRO Easy, tea was from China, then the British stole the cultivation methods and grew it in India so they wouldn't have to give China silver anymore, while simultaneously getting the entire country hooked on opium. It was one of the contributing factors to the decline of China to the modern day.
And opium.
@@naughtiusmaximus830 that is a great idea.
This is some of your best work , the formatting , the editing , the story and narration. This is high quality educational entertainment 🖤
Except the weird camera angles when he's speaking. What's up with that ?
This was one of the most unexpectedly fascinating things I've ever seen. Rice is frickin' rad, man!
Just want to say hats off to you, your writing, annunciation, research and delivery are amazing and I love watching and listening to your videos. Thank you and please keep up the hard work!
I have been wanting a video on the history of rice for a while now. There was a show that purportedly told the “history of rice,” but it was really just about the growing and manufacture of rice within the US, and it had no actual history (even of how the US ended up with rice) at all. It was such an epic fail that I ranted to my partner about it for a good 15 minutes. 😂
Thank you for giving us such a concise history on how rice has traveled around and transformed our world, even if there is (obviously) a lot of information that you couldn’t include in this episode. Our family eats rice every day, and even in our home we have multiple types of rice for different dishes, so this episode was very interesting to me.
When you finish a youtube video and suddenly realize it was an hour long, you know it was excellent content. Awesome job! I am an American but I eat a LOT of rice. I had sticky rice with dinner for the last 5 nights. I always have at least 30 pounds of Jasmine and 30 pounds of Sticky rice on hand at all times.
Feels a bit funny that you are talking about all the cuisines across the world, then go visit restaurants from different countries, and all those restaurants are in Bangkok. Really looks like a food heaven. No wonder why Mark Wiens, and other foodies decided to live there
I think you can find most cuisines in every major city on our planet.
I like the video. I was raised on rice. My parents from Barbados. I love hearing the history of the foods we eat.
Great point; most OTR videos don't go to far "OTR" (on the road) from Bangkok. If you watch his "why I do this" videos, he kind of explains why he stays in Grung Thep (Bangkok.)
In my experience, Bangkok isn't the place at all for THE best Thai food. Chiang Mai, and other smaller provinces ARE.
@@TreeofHelll After over ten years in C.M. I'd agree at least to the extent that I find Lanna cuisine superior to others.
I was raised on that Minute Rice stuff. Now, I steam several bowlfuls a week, mostly Thai Jasmine. Only takes a small amount of extra effort, but there's a world of difference.
in India we cook rice with extra water and then just like pasta is drained from all the excess water, we take it out that heavy starch water. After cook under a heavy bottom pan for another few minutes just like simmering on slow fire.
Why you must be american I presume? Second quote from Henry Morton Stanley.
@@chriscarrol9373 Canadian - close enough when it comes to rice culture, especially in the '60s and '70s. Minute Rice - and Uncle Ben's. . . Dainty Rice. . . all of it was 'near-rice.' Eight Treasures Thai Jasmine is my brand these days. A great all-rounder that does well in many different cuisines.
Chinese people greet each other by saying, "Have you eaten rice yet". It's basically saying "Have you eaten yet" or a way of saying "hello". Glory to rice!
AMAZING hour! I've saved it under several headings... Cultural Cusines, World History, Agriculture... Wonderful presentation!!🎉Thank you!🙏❤️❤️❤️
Wow!! One hour passed so quickly this was really amazing. I still plant rice at home in Trinidad and love it. It's history is wide spread across the world. Thank you Lord for providing such an amazing food....thank you sir for your explanation......
Too hungry, I'll watch this later 😂
What a good video. I was expecting just the China/India, but the Africa and world angle was refreshing.
The way you tell the stories and histories of such humble dishes and food stuffs is amazing. I find myself glued to each episode and can't wait for the next one.
You've got a great thing going here!
Wow. Epic video. It combines archaeology, history, cuisine, culture all in one massive dose of interesting delivery. Almost as massive as the amount of rice eaten that day. Subbed
What an incredible video! You’re stretching the boundaries of what CZcams can provide. I hope you can make many more videos like this one, I’d love to get a historic perspective on some spices, or preservation techniques, or cooking methods! I’m super grateful for your work!
There's a video on spices, also on chillis on his channel
Considering that is was a wheat shortage that brought about the French revolution, the French should have known better than letting a French trained Vietnamese Chef with a way of words loose on a starving nation.
It's kind of a lost cause anyway: what would be the point of colonialism, if not to exploit people and nature, where there's enough lies and excuses to justify it?
I admit I don't know enough of the history to identify the French-trained Vietnamese chef is. Is it Ho Chi Minh?
@@grovermartin6874 Yes.
@@zeideerskine3462 Aha! That IS a funny point!
Best post here yet!! Uncle Ho!!
I'm not sure I would have survived this far in life if it werent for this rice
Hi. Im from Sri Lanka. This is a great video, learned a lot and enjoyed alot.
But you have missed Sri Lanka and its legacy of Rice. In Sri Lanka there is a rich and long history of rice and rice plays a significant role in the culture and religion in Sri Lanka.
There's a type of rice which is grown in the southern of the coastal region in rufiji delta in Tanzania. they call it "bora nipate"(at least let me get something), It grows in almost everywhere even on anthills.Sadly it's being replaced by new seeds, you should look into that
Another banger man, props to you and the rest of the team for all the hard work!
Should not have watched this with an empty stomach. The restaurants you visits look fantastic. I am hungry from watching all the food.
Oooo I am blurry eyed from insomnia and BAM! the history of rice? Love the moments
This is fascinating. How can this not be done before?! Good job.
I only found your channel a few weeks ago. Every video I have seen so far is gem. Keep up the womderful work.
This video is just great! I love how you combine history and food-thank you!
What a fscinating , and brave video Adam. Been a fan of your excellent channel for a while now and I'm constantly amazed by the amount of research you put into your Vlogs !!
Cheers and thank you!
Your research on the story is much appreciate. Very fascinating.
Amazing. Brilliant job. Seriously earned my sub. Keep it coming
Tip of the rice berg…thats some funny shit right there. The dadjokes of dadjokes
I cannot even comprehend how you are able to put out so many videos of such high quality so quickly.
This might be the BEST video I have ever watched. Now I’m going to find my local best jollof place to try something new and dig in! Thank you!
I am amazed by the international culinary scenes of Bangkok. Superb documentary as always BTW!
SO very amazing!! You literally and figuratively "bit off more than you can chew" and came out the king of CZcams food videos again!! Really good, really fun. Their planting the first round of Khao Nyow (sticky rice) in Lanna (north west Thailand) right now. I pray this heat ends and the rains begin so they have a good harvest. Some one better preserve that African rice, we're gonna' NEED a hearty, heat/drought resistant strain soon!
This is incredible to Watch. Thank you i have learned so much. The Pictures and Videos are so on point. This is very entertaining and still informative.
If you google the word "Valeriepieris circle" it is a circle cover China, India and SE Asia. People live in this circle more than outside the circle or over 50% of world population are in this circle and the reason is rice. Rice is the plant that give the most calories per farming area. It means you can feed more people if you grow rice. That's why most area with high population density always the rice eating area.
Actually higher calories per farming area goes to corn. Corn can be grown in marginal farming land whereas rice need to be grown in warm, rich soil and high rainfall.
@@kulkrafts3143under the right conditions rice can have 2-3 harvest a year, while corn can only be harvested once a year.
I cook a pot of rice with almost every dinner and I always say to the grandkids, "you want some rice? we have rice."
Absolutely loved your video, man. Thanks.
Beautiful insight. Thanks!
What a fantastic video - as usual!! 🙂
Great to learn so much about a staple around the world. Hope more videos like this longer format along the way.
very clear thanks
A strain of African wetland rice was introduced to the Americans became a staple crop in the US known as Carolina Gold, which was the major rice variety grown in the US until it was replaced by Asian varieties and eventually ceased being commercially grown early in the 20th century
Oh! That's terrible to hear!😭 I've been reading so many comments to learn about the Carolina rice. Curses, foiled again!
Should've been more specific.... it was phased out as a large scale commercial crop early in the 20th century but saw a resurgence a couple decades ago and is being grown by farmers mostly on a small commercial scale and as a "heritage" crop, but nothing on the scale as before. It is available on Amazon.
@@curtisthomas2670 Thank you for raising my awareness about Carolina Gold rice. I just ordered some from Amazon.
@@grovermartin6874 another African rice story: Red bearded upland rice is a reddish nutty tasting African rice that grows on dry land and hillsides. Thomas Jefferson imported a cask of it from Africa and distributed seeds to various farmers in particularly mosquito prone areas in the hope that it would replace wetland rice and the need for mosquito harboring rice paddies. But because it required much more labour especially in threshing it never caught on as a large scale commercial crop, but was mostly grown by free blacks and slaves on a small scale and as a subsistence crop. It was gradually phased out during the Civil War and post war period.
After the War of 1812 runaway slaves who had served with the British military against the US were resettled along with their families by the British on Crown lands in the forested Moruga area in the then British colony of Trinidad and Tobago. They carried red bearded upland rice with them and planted it on the lands given to them, and it is still grown as a commercial crop to this day, under the name "Moruga Hill Rice" and is available online.
US agriculturists had long thought it was a " lost grain" and were surprised to find large fields under cultivation in Trinidad and have since reintroduced it to the US.
@@curtisthomas2670 That gives me a thrill to learn. Thank you! I am going to order some now!
Amazing in depth research on the history of rice.. the origins of many foods are hard to trace.. earlier I watched your history of the coconut.. very informative also.. back to the rice info.. you talked about Vietnam, France and Japan.. I remember reading somewhere that the US-Vietnam war was about rice and not politics!!!. Hope to see and learn more from your research videos on CZcams. Thanks for Sharing..
Awesome job ❤ keep it going I wish you well with your tube
Absolutely FANTASTIC!!! New subscriber - and THANK YOU!
In Telugu regions of Southern India, we don't ask did u had lunch/dinner, we jus ask Annam Thinnava ( had rice?) , also rice plays a very important role in culture, we even have a first time rice eating ceremony for babies, frm birth to death , rice is used in all ceremonies, the goddess for rice is annapuurna devi...
See the posts above/\ In Thai "Gin Khao Rueang" (eat rice yet?) and a dozen other nationalities gave their version!
Kinda the same in japan "gohan" and chinese(hakka) "fon" both can mean meal and rice
I am glad you addressed the African rice story & was even a little surprised to find a variety of posho (the name for the edible spoon used in my gf's country of Uganda) made from rice & the use of Mexican rice my family grew up with, but am a little disappointed you hadn't addressed the wild rice (perhaps might do with a name change to marsh rice) found among sundry Native American groups (which happen to be among my ancestral groups mostly from my father's side) especially along the Laurentian Great Lakes such as the Ojibwe & nearby groups, especially since a similar strain is still used in parts of Northern China
The story of the invention of rice knocking sticks and the foundation of that story being the role children play in Ojibwe culture would have definitely been an interesting addendum here.
I cannot express how much I adore the food in Uganda. Oh man. It's literally one of my 5 favorite countries anywhere. I could have rolex and that "pork joint" dish every day and I'd be happy
The problem with going into the Native American story- I tried, went pretty deep into research for a segment, but there's just nothing in terms of actual evidence when it comes to recorded history that can actually show when rice cultivation started or pretty much anything else about the actual history before the colonial era. I just couldn't find enough to feel comfortable saying anything authoritative
The indigenous rice varieties traditionally grown by North American Native Americans are not actually genuine rice, as they do not belong to either Asian sativa or African Glabirrema species, but are non related grasses the seeds of which were grown , harvested and used similarly to real rice.
Absolutely wonderful video！Thanks
A wonderful documentary. I am delighted to have discovered this.
Here for the rice.
Excellent. A brief skim of the varieties, but so much more....
Thanks so much! Again!
Very interesting, educational, and entertaining.
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Yes! Finally rice video
This is incredibly well done! Super detailed, I like it
Next one I would suggest chicken
Cheers and thanks! We didn’t do a whole video on chicken but there is a long segment on the origins, in our Thai Fried Chicken video. Was a really cool segment to research, a lot of stuff I hadn’t known before.
@@OTRontheroad yeah! I love that one which is why I say it. It would be cool to make one tho. Many people don’t even know chicken comes from Southeast Asia. Rice was also mentioned in your khanom Jeen video and tidbits in otehr videos but this video still help condense it ito one.
Pilaf, biryani, risotto, paella, all have variations (possibly original) where the dry rice is sautéed before liquid is added, instead of boiled.
Comprehensive and fun to watch... Great job
I had to stop watching about halfway through, looking at all the different rice dishes was making me feel too hungry 😂
Rice is delicious in it's simplicity, wheat is delicious in it's versatility.
I really hope that traditional varieties of rice are being preserved in cultivation - not only the Asian kinds, but particularly the African and Brazilian types, not just for the historic and cultural reasons, but also to keep the available gene pool as diverse as possible.
I worked with solidarity groups feeding people in large numbers and nothing compares to rice in its ability to feed large numbers of people well at low cost, not even pasta or bread come close
I hope you make another chapter on rice. The Central Asia rice used in dishes in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan all use a completely different variety of rice that is super hard and cooks for longer. It is similar to the kind of hard rice used in preparing paella. Loved your video on rice. Thank you!
Outstanding. Very interesting. Excellent including all that history
This video was one of the moat interesting and informative I have ever seen. Love your presentation technique. Rice / simple and very complex..
Never clicked on anything so fast
Really interesting video, enjoyed it. There was one historic misstep that occurred, captain Bligh’s voyage was indeed to get breadfruit from Tahiti but he was to deliver it to the Caribbean as a cheap food source for the slaves there not England. England would have been too cold for it to thrive. Although he was not successful, someone else was and breadfruit became part of the cuisine there. It would be interesting to follow the migration of taro from Asia, as someone who grew up in Hawai’i I was truly surprised to see it here in Thailand.
Great comment and good to know. That makes total sense re: the destination of the Bounty. Not a story I know well
Taro is also widely grown and used in the Caribbean and Latin America. In Trinidad and Tobago it's a staple starch, called dasheen. The tubers are mostly boiled or added to soups while the leaves are made into a thick soup - like stew called callaloo that is a national dish or other dishes
@@curtisthomas2670 I wonder how it was introduced like the breadfruit or if it was indigenous to the area.
@@ikakau probably either brought as a food for slaves during the slave trade or later by indentured laborers from India after emancipation, not sure
@@ikakau there's actually a dish called "oil down" that is made with breadfruit and taro leaves
Wow, such amazing stories. Thank you for this.
Wow, this is amazing. I continue to be blown away by your films and your insaine work output.
An hour-long video about the history of rice and yet not one mention of Uncle Roger... Haiyaa 😢
Because he's a caricature of the asian image. Personally, I'd be fine with that if he was actually funny.
What about Uncle Ben??? 😂
He’s more an MSG man than real Asian cooking.😅
Zhou / Jook / Congee with the right amount of salt = PERFECT. Honestly, salt is the best flavour enhancer for it :D And as with all rice, so flexible in what you can have with it and making it still taste great :) Warm and filling, making it so good when you are sick or cold :)
I subscribed before even watching because this topic is a good idea. Go OTR!
That was great. Love how rice is so tied into the rise of civilisations. Subscribed.
May Rice bless us all.
rice 'congee' is a common Indian word in coastal Maharashtra. rice noodles are called 'shirvale' in coastal Maharashtra.
Excellent video sir. Thank you very much.
I absolutely love this channel!
Indian here, living in the west. What I miss the most is the noted absence of rice. Back home, rice is everywhere, from religion to food.
Look to large cities with Indian areas. There’s a wide selection of rice.
Why do indian ppl put poo in their food?
@@mariekatherine5238 I just meant that rice is lacking from diet, compared to home. And not really considered a big part of everyday living.
Zhou dynasty (周) and zhou the rice gruel (粥） are different characters in Chinese and pronounced differently in middle chinese related dialects (old dialects like cantonese, shanghainese or min, rather than a modern dialect like mandarin or putonghua).
Wonderful piece - love the cadence of your delivery.
This is super cool! Great job, man!
It's only in modern Mandarin that zhōu (粥) 'rice porridge' came to be pronounced the same as Zhōu (周), the name of the ancient dynasty. In Cantonese, for example, the former is pronounced jūk and the latter is Jāu, and similar distinctions can be seen in most southern Chinese varieties. In Old Chinese and Middle Chinese, the word for 'rice porridge' had a 'k' sound at the end, unlike in the name for the dynasty.
Thank you! Truly fascinating video!😊
Absolutely fascinating, the connections and history of this grain.
I love your content so much and want to say thank you for sharing all histories.
Great video. Thank you.
Thanks, this is a broad historical video of rice around the world. There's also a story that the Filipinos who grow rice in New Orleans in the 1700s, too..
ooook... never imagined the story of rice could be so complicated. What a journey. For the rice and us ^^. Thank you very much for this BEAST of infodump!