NPR News: A Lost Rice Variety — And The Story Of The Freed 'Merikins' Who Kept It Alive

A Lost Rice Variety — And The Story Of The Freed 'Merikins' Who Kept It Alive
The rice traveled from Africa to the Southeast, where it was a link to home for enslaved Africans. Then it nearly vanished — and with it, a heritage tying African, Southern and West Indian foodways.

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