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Originally appeared: March 2004.Do you have a minute to talk about rice?I hope so; statistically speaking, if you are a human on the planet Earth, rice is most likely your staple food.

The starches contained within rice were strong enough to secure the stones used to.build the Great Wall of China.And yet the meticulous methods required for rice's cultivation and cookery have long made it the grain of choice in royal kitchens.

Whether you enjoy it as polo, biryani, or risotto, rice is both grain of the people and delicacy of the rich and powerful.. Rice Is Everything.There are many forms of rice.

Most — though not all — are varieties of Oryza sativa, the Asian rice grain originally domesticated during the Neolithic Revolution.

Today you have access to more kinds of rice than a Persian monarch, each with its own biochemistry and virtues in the pot.Among the recipes in the feature was one for pickled.

, a favorite in eastern North Carolina where I come from.Thirty years later, F&W asked me to revisit that recipe.

I was more than up for the task since I love pickled shrimp, and since Ben and I have been friends for more than 40 years.. Ben and I first met when he and Karen and I all worked in the kitchen of La Residence in Chapel Hill in the early '80s.They moved on, first to The Fearrington House Inn out in Chatham County, and then to open Magnolia Grill in 1986.