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

[Johnna Holloway]

Actually for Rice----
I am going to mention two sources that I have at hand----
Now ok these concern American rice but the historical aspects
are mentioned, both contain bibliographies and there are footnotes to
be explored---
The Carolina Rice Kitchen by Karen Hess . University of South Carolina 
Press,  1992.
Black Rice. The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas by 
Judith A. Carney.
Harvard University Press,  2001.

One aspect that both talk about is the growth of rice production on the 
West African coast
as the Portuguese voyages of discovery moved south. Rice, millet, and 
sorghum were the
3 cereals being mentioned as grown on that coast in the earliest 
accounts by the Portuguese.
Hess's book is a really first rate food history and contains a facsimile 
of the Carolina Rice
Cook Book. She spends one entire chapter tracing the history of the dish 
Pilau.

Another new one on the aspects of West Africa and rice
 is Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves. Transformations along the
Guinea-Bissau Coast, 1400-1900 by Walter Hawthorne. Heinnemann, 2003.

Before booking the ticket and flying off for tackling such far off 
sources as the PRO in London or various archives, there are
a number of other books that also might be looked at--
Under Rice Trade--History, one turns up over a 170 books alone. 110 in 
non-Asian languages.
and 240 under Rice--History.
You might want to take a look at LOC.gov and explore some titles there 
under these headings.

I'll look for some papers later in the citation indexes. There also seem 
to be a number of
dissertations.

Johnnae llyn Lewis

Terry Decker wrote:

>One might try the London Public Records Office (as the gentleman who wrote
>this http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/munro5/SPICES1.htm did) or possibly
>even try the Royal London Archives.  snipped
>There are also some excellent sources in various economic history papers,
>but most of those aren't webbed and have to be located and ordered from
>academic publishers.  Johnna might prove more useful than I in finding such
>sources.
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>Bear
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>From: Daniel Myers <edouard at medievalcookery.com>
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>>So we're still left with the overall answer of "I dunno".  There's got
>>to be something left to check - mill records?  Shipping manifests?
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