Digging up Carolina Gold
Many thanks to Robert for reminding me that we had talked about Carolina Gold before, and that the story of its Malagasy origin is not all that cut and dried.
Carolina Gold
In the early 1700’s, rice was South Carolina’s main export — no wonder the variety grown was called Carolina Gold. But where did it come from? The first reported import in the New World of what is thought to be Carolina Gold occurred in 1685, when a slave ship from Madagascar unloaded a cargo of …
Gold lost and found
As an astute researcher, the doctor grew curious about the Carolina Gold he’d read so much about. And he soon discovered that seed for the original plant was still being banked at the USDA’s Rice Research Institute in Texas. After Schulze made an inquiry with the USDA, an agronomist named Richard Bollock, who shared his …
Lost rice found, again
First there was Carolina Gold. Now there is “upland red bearded” or “Moruga Hill” rice. Mr. Dennis had heard about hill rice…through the culinary organization Slow Food USA and the Carolina Gold Rice Foundation, the group that brought back Carolina Gold in the early 2000s. He’d also heard stories about it from elderly cooks in …
Nibbles: Heirloom rice, Kava traditions, State turnip, Japanese paper, Potato Day, Madagascar invasion
There’s Carolina Gold in them thar hills. Latest in a long list… Kava in the Pacific, island by island. A really ugly heirloom turnip is Vermont’s state vegetable. In other news, there are state vegetables. This video will make you want to make your own paper, I guarantee it. Oh come on, we missed Peru’s …