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More than meets your rice

The author (center) with two symposium staff clad in kimonos. (Photo: Furya Takashi) Maybe I was hallucinating but I thought I saw a pair of socks among a sea of products in the rice exhibit at the Second International Symposium on Rice and Disease Prevention in Wakayama, Japan. Upon closer inspection, my...

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Sowing the seeds of art

Mysterious crop circles of incredible complexity that appear overnight, or a baseball park as in the 1989 film Field of dreams—who knows what you might...

Hainanese chicken rice

Hainanese chicken rice. (Photo: IRRI) Serves 4–6 Time: 1½ hours, plus resting A classic Singaporean/Malay dish developed by immigrants from the southern...

Pea and mint risotto

Risotto is a traditional Italian rice dish. This recipe serves 4 as an appetizer. (Photo: Jose Raymond Panaligan) Preparation Heat olive oil in a large...

Contours of change

(Photo: IRRI) My American husband certainly is not alone as a foreigner with a keen interest in the Ifugao and our rice terraces. My people have been the...

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