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The famed Koshihikari rice is sticky and chewy.
food

White Rice Is Bland? These Japanese Researchers Beg to Differ

Japan's food world is eagerly awaiting an upcoming "flavor dictionary."
Kenji Hall April 23, 2024
Hainanese chicken rice.
rice

This Cookbook Explores Why ‘Rice Is Culture’

Chef JJ Johnson takes readers on a global culinary tour.
Diana Hubbell September 8, 2023
Takagi Shrine
Tokyo, Japan

Takagi Shrine

Rice balls symbolize fate and relationship at this adorable shrine, which was once dedicated to the Buddhist Devil.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Cơm Tấm Nguyễn Văn Cừ

Vietnam’s everyman “broken rice” dish is given one major upgrade at this humble institution.
New York, New York

Yi Ji Shi Mo Noodle Corp

Cooks at this tiny takeout spot grind their rice flour in a stone mill each morning for perfect cheung fun.
Andrus, with his farmhands.
farms

The Duck Brigade Behind a Farmer's Plentiful Rice Harvest

Erik Andrus is bringing the Japanese art of aigamo to Vermont.
Jillian Dara January 19, 2023
Ichimonjiya Wasuke.
Kyoto, Japan

Ichimonjiya Wasuke

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.
A scene from <em>Gone With the Wind</em>, in rice.
food

The Epic Landscape Art of Tiny Inakadate, Japan

Each year, entire rice fields grow into masterpieces.
Selena Takigawa Hoy August 27, 2021
Banaue, Philippines

Batad Rice Paddies

These tiered rice paddies were carved into the hillsides 2,000 years ago.
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.