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Archeological
evidence suggests rice has been feeding mankind for
more than 7000 years. In some languages the word for
"rice" actually means "eat rice."
The
first documented account of rice is found in a decree
on rice planting authored by a Chinese emperor around
2800 B.C. From China to ancient Greece, from Persia
to the Nile Delta, rice migrated across the continents
eventually finding its way to the Western Hemisphere.
In 1694 a storm-battered ship sailing from Madagascar
was forced off course and limped into the Charleston,
South Carolina harbor for repairs. The ship's captain
made a gift of a small quantity of "Golde Seede"
rice (named for its color) to a local planter.
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By
1726 "Carolina Golde Seede Rice" became the world
standard for high quality rice. Throughout the United States'
early history including plantation farming and slavery in the
Carolinas and Georgia, the Civil War, the Carolina Gold Rush
and its resulting large number of Chinese immigrants, and the
dawn of the Machine Age, rice became part of the fabric of America.
The discovery by an Iowa farmer that the prairie land of south-western
Louisiana and southeastern Texas could sustain rice farming
and heavy equipment lead to the spread of rice farming to Arkansas,
Louisiana, Texas, Missouri, Mississippi, Florida and California.
Because Canada's climate is not favourable to growing rice,
much of Dainty's rice (with the exception of our World Classics)
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