The Food That Built America Recap for Rice to Riches

The Food That Built America Recap for Rice to Riches This week’s episode of The Food That Built America on The History Channel is titled Rice to Riches and talks about how the popular side dish came to be. Rice showed up in the Americas thanks to enslaved Africans and it soon became a popular crop and an export to Europe. However, Americans were rarely, if ever eating it themselves. It becomes less popular in the 1920s but was used in jambalaya and various Chinese dishes. Many people found rice to be difficult to cook. Atullah Khan […]