[Sca-cooks] Partly OP: Brown vs. white rice?

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> >> 1.  Rice wasn't grown in northern Europe in period, and all of the
> >> rice
> >> they ate was imported from the far east.  Polished rice would have
> >> been
> >> sent to prevent it from spoiling on the trip.
> >
> > Not to disagree with your theory, but I seem to recall rice was being
> > grown in Italy and some other parts of the mediterrean in period.
>
> I wouldn't deny that possibility/probability  -  Terry posted some
> details of rice production around the Mediterranean.  However I did say
> in my earlier post that I was referring to northern Europe, more
> specifically England.
>

But the rice that they ate in Northern Europe was imported from the
Mediterrean, not from the far East, which was the point I was trying to
make.

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