7/2/2023 0 Comments Michael twitty rice![]() ![]() ![]() That’s what made the hill rice in Trinidad such a find. ![]() So much remains unknown about how millions of enslaved Africans used it in their kitchens and how it got to those kitchens to begin with. Among the biologists, geneticists and historians who use food as a lens to study the African diaspora, rice is a particularly deep rabbit hole. Upland red bearded rice, which grows in the Moruga district in Trinidad, turned out to be a missing culinary link between enslaved people in coastal Georgia and a group of slaves who were able to buy their freedom by fighting for the British in the War of 1812.Credit…Karsten Moran for The New York Times The search for the missing grain led to Trinidad and Thomas Jefferson, and now excitement among African-American chefs. ![]()
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