Rice by Michael W. Twitty7/6/2023 ![]() As Twitty gratefully sums up, "Rice connects me to every other person, southern an. This adds authenticity about its journey and how rice was originally prepared, giving readers a reliable resource. He uses his extensive knowledge of Gullah culture and West African countries to explain its versatility and rich history. Exploring rice's culinary history and African diasporic identity, Twitty shows how to make the southern classics as well as international dishes-everything from Savannah Rice Waffles to Ghanaian Crab Stew. Twitty refers to rice as The queen of the south. Commingled or paired with other foods, rice is indispensable to the foodways of the South.Īs Twitty's fifty-one recipes deliciously demonstrate, rice stars in Creole, Acadian, soul food, Low Country, and Gulf Coast kitchens, as well as in the kitchens of cooks from around the world who are now at home in the South. In some dishes, it is crunchingly crispy in others, soothingly smooth in still others, somewhere right in between. ![]() Filling and delicious, rice comes in numerous botanical varieties and offers a vast range of scents, tastes, and textures depending on how it is cooked. But we need to talk about how African-American cuisine came of age. ![]() Twitty observes, depending on regional tastes, rice may be enjoyed at breakfast, lunch, and dinner as main dish, side dish, and snack in dishes savory and sweet. MUSIC PLAYING MICHAEL TWITTY: Throughout the 250 years before emancipation, West and Central African methods of cooking, traditional ingredients, and Creolized versions of African dishes came to be considered distinctly Southern. Among the staple foods most welcomed on southern tables-and on tables around the world-rice is without question the most versatile. ![]()
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