Party Rice Around Africa

I live in Asia and I eat prominently plain white rice, but damn, I’d love these dozens of interesting ways to eat it

there are two species of rice: oryza sativa native to Asia and oryza glabirrema native to AFRICA. Rice was domesticated INDEPENDENTLY in Asia and Africa thousands of years ago. Until the very late colonial era and later the main rice grown in Africa was glabirrema varieties. Many glabirrema strains are still grown all over Africa, although sativa now dominates. Europeans found West Africans growing vast fields of glabirrema and various glabirrema strains were taken by European colonists along with experienced farmers to the Americas and one strain that became known as Carolina Gold was a major crop and the main rice grown in the US for a couple centuries until the Civil War era. Another glabirrema strain was red bearded upland rice which grows on dry land and hillsides. Thomas Jefferson imported a cask to the US to replace rice grown in flooded fields in heavily mosquito infested parts of the South, but because of the extra work required to grow and process it didn't catch on as a large scale commercial crop, but was mostly grown as a subsistence crop by slaves and free blacks. It's still grown as a small commercial crop in the Caribbean island of Trinidad where it was introduced by resettled black ex British Royal Marine soldiers who were originally runaway US slaves who joined the British ranks during the War of 1812.
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Looks delicious 😋

jollof rice and nigerian beef stew are the foods that I really want to try

somali….. the best

Jollof rice😛 and pilau rice 😍😛😛 for me😍

Cabo Verde party rice is not "Arroz de marisco" (Sea Food Rice) is actually "Arroz de Atum"(Tuna Rice) ou Arroz com Tudo(Rice with everything you have in your fridge ). We do have Sea Food Rice tho, but it's definitely not Party Rice and that's not the way to prepare it .

Hey,what type of rice are you using?

Is the rice non cooked befor they add to ingredients or is it already cooked

Party rice sounds like jambalaya or a gumbo from down south in the United States.

Good to see my fellow Ghanaians creating food content

Damm İ feel like home when i saw that Somali bariis

cape verde doesnt cook like that

Kiki Canuto is so beautiful! 😍😍

CABO VERDE ! SOMALIA ! GHANA ! KENYA ! YES

Jollof rice look yummy 😋

generic comment about the somali girl eating with her hands

encanto ass music

I love my African culture

Long grain rice? Smh

These look delicious …. as a rice lover I wonder why these aren't more widespread