The Epic Story of Rice: Gods, Conquests, and a Food Trip Through History

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1 hour of rice lore? I'm watching every second of it.

There is a reason why Thais always ask "Gin Khao rue yang" it litterally means "Have you eaten rice yet" but it is actually a greeting. Rice is everything .

I live in Sakon Nahkon province Thailand and they just harvested the sticky rice in the field across from my house. Rice is spread out to dry in all the flat places and It produces a wonderful aroma. It's a simple life with only 2 kinds of food. Rice and things that are eaten with rice.

My Filipino family, 50 yrs in the USA, won't eat without rice. For fun I made a standard "white" Thanksgiving dinner with turkey, mashed potatoes, etc, and left off putting out rice only to watch them fidget and look around. After a minute of enjoying their anxiety (but them politely saying nothing) I put out a dish of steamed rice and and everyone smiled and relaxed.

My late grandpa grew red rice in his garden in Sierra Leone. I'm an avid cook, just like he was, so I was curious to try when I met him for the first time when I was 16. Eating his red rice gave me memories that never happened. The taste felt very nostalgic. I miss my grandpa

As a half Persian half Chinese (by way of Thailand) this video brings my joy through my whole soul.

I don't know how but you can packed so much information in to your videos and still not boring to watch. Thank you for making this channel.

One thing I was hoping you would mention was that without rice, pasta would not exist. That total staple and pinnacle of Italian cuisine owes its origins to the humble rice noodle

I am from South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Native name "arisi" became rice world over. Not disputing the origin of rice. on whic you have done so much reasearch on. Think it was the trade network Tamils had. Love your vedio and appriciate your effort. One day when I have my own youtube channel, I will make a vegitarian version of each of the recipes in this video.

Absolutely amazing history of rice. As a previous chef also I am so happy to see the coverage of so many varieties of rice and locations that it was developing. Thank you for this amazing history. “Have you had your rice today”

The grass family includes all the major cereals, such as wheat, maize, rice, barley, and oats, and most of the minor grains as well, such as rye, common millet, finger millet, teff, and many others that are less familiar. It also includes such economically important species as sugar cane and sorghum.

This guy does an excellent job of showcasing good food and giving a detailed historical background on it.

🇧🇷🇧🇷 In BRAZIL , brazilians NEED RICE, beans, salad and some meat to eat evey day in order to have a normal food and " survive ".🇧🇷🇧🇷

Now you got to make a video about tea.

This is some of your best work , the formatting , the editing , the story and narration. This is high quality educational entertainment 🖤

This was one of the most unexpectedly fascinating things I've ever seen. Rice is frickin' rad, man!

Just want to say hats off to you, your writing, annunciation, research and delivery are amazing and I love watching and listening to your videos. Thank you and please keep up the hard work!

I have been wanting a video on the history of rice for a while now. There was a show that purportedly told the “history of rice,” but it was really just about the growing and manufacture of rice within the US, and it had no actual history (even of how the US ended up with rice) at all. It was such an epic fail that I ranted to my partner about it for a good 15 minutes. 😂 Thank you for giving us such a concise history on how rice has traveled around and transformed our world, even if there is (obviously) a lot of information that you couldn’t include in this episode. Our family eats rice every day, and even in our home we have multiple types of rice for different dishes, so this episode was very interesting to me.

When you finish a youtube video and suddenly realize it was an hour long, you know it was excellent content. Awesome job! I am an American but I eat a LOT of rice. I had sticky rice with dinner for the last 5 nights. I always have at least 30 pounds of Jasmine and 30 pounds of Sticky rice on hand at all times.