RICE

                         

                          RICE
 History
 Rice is the oldest known food that still widely consumed today.Archaeologists can date Its consumption back to 5000 BC, the time when the first traces of its cultivation in China, Thailand and India appear. From India, it arrived to cultivation has always been most widespread in Asia.
 JAPANESE RICE
 Rice is the most coomon food in Japan, a variety of small grain types of eaten in which are also used as the basis of sushi, Japanese culsine's most Famous export. Rice grains in Japan are affectionately called "Little Buddhas"
























 ORYZA SATIVA
 The Oryza Sativa family from which all commercially produced rice comes, can boast over 40,000 different cultivated specices. Each rice seed can produce up to 3,000 grains, which is the highest level of production amongst cereals.
QUICK
 Rice ia also good when eaten cold, and for this reason it can be considerd as a kind of fast food. Many kinds of per-boiled rice, which have very short  cooking times, are already commercially avaliable.
 Rainbow rice In April in China on Ancestor's Day(Tomb Sweeping Day) rice is used not only to honour one's ancestor's but also to celebrate the arrival of Spring, and is traditionally dyed in a variety of colours using natural plant dtes.
UNIVERSITY
From former US Secretary if State Condoleeza Rice, to Rice University In Amercia, rice is not just food, but is also a name given to people and universities. The most famous university named as such is found in Houston, Taxes and is renowned for its science and engineering facuilites.
WEDDING
When leaving the wedding ceremony, and after the blessing of the bride and groom, it is traditional in all cultures to throw grains of rice over the heads of the newlyweds in order to wish them prosperity and fertility in the future.
ZIZANIA
 Zizania is called wild rice, but despite its name Zizania is the fact a variety of grass, which has little in common with the many varieties of rice.
XANTHOMONAS Simply called Xoo in biology, Xanthomas oryzae is a bacteria which attack the leaves of the rice plant and its grains. This is not the only emeny of rice farmers and producers; many fungi are harmful to the plant, meaning that entire harvests sometimes have to be rejected.
VISHNU In Bali, Indonesia, Hindus belives that it was Vishnu who s the first made rice grow out of the ground from nothing. The god of bad waether, Indra, then taught pople how to grow the plant; this explain why rice only grow in waterlogged soil.
SPOHOCIES
  Rice was even spoken of as far back as the ancient Greek tragedies. The tragedian Sophocies mentions it, telling us that the cereal arrived from Ethiopia, while the comedian Aristophanes, in one of his verses, sketches out of the recipe fpr the rice roll.
  YOUR NAME ON A RICE GRAIN
 Grain of rice are used by some jewellery designers to make personalised pieces of jewellery. The most classic exmple is one's name wriitten on a grain of rice, when is then kept in a small glass vial, and worm as a pendant.
  PILLOW
 Originating in Switzerland, pillows made of natural textile stuffed with rice are an excellent aid for relieving back and neck pain. First heated up in the microwave, they are then positioned over the painful area.
PROSPERITY
  Rice are used as prosperity in India. The first meal giving to newly wife and the first meal a newly serve her husband is rice so as to be frutfully, prosperity, and have enough fertility, likewise Rice is the first food they serve a new born babies, as it's conisdered auspious for future prosperity.
MING
oone of the secrets to chinese architecture under the chinese Ming dynasty(1300-1600) can be found hidden in limestone. Rice, which adds strength and stability, was used in the walls of the city of Nanjing.
 LIQUOR
Beside rice wine, vingar and beer the distilled plant can produce excellent grappa, and also sake, a liquor that aids digestion when enjoyed chilled after meal.
GODS
In India, rice is associated with prosperity and the Hindu god of wealth, Laksmi. In Japan, it's associated with the sun-god Amatereshu-Omi Kami, and in Thailand, where men aren't allowed to enter rice paddies, the deity Mae Posop, who is considered to be the "mother of rice" deity.
DIET
Rice is the main ingredient of one of the most widely-known weight loss diets In its strictest version, Only rice can be eaten at lunch and dinner, either plain or, at the most, flavoured with soy sauce.















ASIA
Asia alone both produces and consumes 90% of the world's rice.
BASMATI
In Hindi, its basmati means "the queen of fragrances", in Arbaic, "my smile", and in the world's most fragent rice. Produced in its greatest quatities at the foot of the Himalayas, between India and Pakistan, Purists advice eating it steamed.