“He’s taken so many cheap shots from everybody, this seemed like a perfect platform for him to redeem himself,” said USA Rice Federation spokeswoman Kim Park. “We had to do this for him and us.”
And, hoo boy! As if September wasn’t already one of my top twelve favorite months of the year … it’s also National Rice Month!
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I actually had to do a report (oh my God, no!) in school once on food history. Just out of nowhere, I thought I’d share this little tidbit of trivia. Did you know that Thomas Jefferson is responsible for bringing rice inthe the United States – on pain of death by treason? Had h been caught smuggling the stuff, the country he took it from (which, as I recall, was Italy) would have lopped off his head.Just thought that was interesting.