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Viewing articles tagged 'rice'
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The rice year
For most of our history the year was measured by rice. A village chose a piece of forest, cleared it, burned it, planted it when the rains came, harvested it, and after a year or two let it grow back while it moved on to the next. Outsiders called this “slash and burn” or “nomadic farming” and set out to end it. This page describes the rice year...
Food and the highland kitchen
Our food begins with upland rice grown in the forest clearing, and most of what else we eat grows beside it, is raised for the spirits, or is taken from the forest and the rivers. The written record of our kitchens is thin and mostly the work of outsiders; this page sets out what it says, people by people, and where it stops.
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