[Sca-cooks] brown rice

[Bernhard Rohrer]

Greetings gentle cousins

I am currently trying to research the usage of brown vs white rice in 
period. The only mention that i have found so far is that white rice 
came in in Japan in the 17th C. 
(http://ask.metafilter.com/149004/History-of-white-not-wholegrain-rice-in-Japan)

Does anybody have a source that can shed more light? Gut feelings says 
brown rice, but that tends to be unreliable ;)

YIS

Arpad