Fabio B's Essay

Essential Question: Why, in many cultures that we are exploring is rice a primary food?

Rice is a primary food throughout many world cultures. In many of the restaurants that we visited in Boston almost all of them had rice in at least one dish. Rice is easy to grow and is cheap. Rice is so cheap that even the poorest of people are able to afford to eat it. But even though it is cheap it doesn’t stop the wealthier people from eating rice. Not only is it cheap rice gives enough nutrition for people to be able to live off rice. Along with it being very cheap and good for you it is easy to preserve and to make for dinner.
Rice can be severed many ways like brown rice and white rice. But when we went to this Indian restaurant they severed our meals with sticky rice. Then when we went to the Mexican restaurant and instead of the rice being a side dish it was actually inside our burritos. Rice in my country isn’t just a side dish or something you add on the side. Rice is in every meal you eat. Rice isn’t looked at as something extra to eat its one of the main foods we eat in my country. People don’t only just make rice just by growing rice. In my country we use corn to grow a special kind of rice called “cuzcuz”. Also people mostly purchase rice from the states mostly because of the taste.

Thank you to Matt M. for revision help.