Rice

‘Outstanding’ Wall Street Journal

‘Makes a great gift for the food-lovingest reader or the book-lovingest cook in your life’ New York Times

‘Backbone of the food history section’ Bookseller

‘These are food memoirs, salacious and exotic, colourful, powdered, sweet, greasy and globe-trotting’ Chicago Tribune

An accessible, essential history of the world’s most versatile grain

Few foods are as universal as rice, yet its story is...