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Arizona Sake is easy to miss.
Holbrook, Arizona

Arizona Sake

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.
Rabbi Edery and CEO Hiroki Arisu outside Funasaka Sake Brewery in Gifu, Japan.
jewish

The Heartwarming History Behind a Brewery's Kosher Sake

Chiune Sugihara was "Righteous Among the Nations."
Anna Rahmanan March 29, 2021
To make the <em>simorgh</em> (a mythical bird in Iranian mythology and literature), the baker-artist stenciled the shape out of a tortilla.
food

Welcome to the Venn Diagram of Cartoon Characters, Geometric Patterns, and Crunchy Rice

One baker treats tahdig as a blank canvas.
Kayla Stewart January 22, 2021
The purple hue traditionally comes from pirurutong rice, but cooks often use ube flavoring for color.
holidays

Why Filipino Christians Greet the December Dawn With Purple Rice

Puto bumbong is a sweet, post-mass breakfast during Simbang Gabi.
Pam Casis December 22, 2020
Chen Guorui's artworks—no matter the shape or size—are formed from base units of rice grains formed into triangles.
art

This Artist Sculpts Animals and Flowers From Grains of Rice

Guorui Chen brought a hometown tradition back from extinction.
Zeyi Yang October 9, 2020
Rice cookers are an elegant solution to a tricky task.
food

The Battle to Invent the Automatic Rice Cooker

The biggest names in Japanese technology vied to bring them to market.
Anne Ewbank July 31, 2020
alcohol

The Sake Master Reviving a Long-Forgotten Local Rice

Hiroshima's heirloom hattanso lay dormant for a century.
Reina Gattuso March 3, 2020
Canoes are the traditional vehicles for gathering wild rice.
food

The Cross-Border Indigenous Battle for Wild Rice

In the Great Lakes region, what some consider a weed is actually a sacred seed.
Darcy Rhyno February 12, 2020
"Momi-2010" wild rice granite carving.
Mount Bundey, Australia

Australian In-Situ Wild Rice Conservation Project

A Japanese sculptor carved an ode to biodiversity into a floodplain.
Mitsuaki Tanabe hoped to draw attention to the glories of wild rice with this massive work.
art

A Japanese Sculptor's Tribute to Wild Rice Covers an Australian Floodplain

Mitsuaki Tanabe's untimely death spurred his son to finish his last work.
Selena Takigawa Hoy January 22, 2020
The Japanese presence near Houston was commemorated in postcards.
immigration

How a Japanese Family Jumpstarted Rice Farming, Deep in the Heart of Texas

It was eventually stifled by nativism and border anxiety.
Isaac Schultz January 8, 2020
Atsuo Sakurai poses with his Arizona Sake equipment in Holbrook, Arizona.
deserts

The Elite Sake Brewer on Route 66

In the Arizona desert, Atsuo Sakurai found the freedom to make something great.
Abbie Gripman January 7, 2020
Gastro Obscura

Hoppin' John

This New Year's luck-bringer has a controversial contemporary taste.
Grains of different varieties of rice that have broken away from their panicles.
food

The Conservationist Saving India's Heirloom Rice Varieties

A tiny plot of land in eastern India safeguards 1,420 kinds of rare indigenous rice.
Rohini Chaki November 25, 2019
Singapore

Hawker Chan Soya Sauce Chicken Rice & Noodle

This Singaporean food-court stall was home to the world's cheapest Michelin-starred meal.
A historical illustration of a common carp.
neolithic

Found: 588 Carp Teeth From China's Oldest-Known Fish Farm

Chinese farmers domesticated the common carp as early as 6200 BC, researchers say.
Sabrina Imbler October 1, 2019
Plov being prepared.
Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Central Asian Plov Center

Giant cauldrons overflow with Uzbekistan's favorite rice dish at this cavernous dining hall.
Gastro Obscura

Bhutanese Red Rice

At 8,000 feet above sea level, glacial irrigation produces a unique heirloom grain.