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Sep 23, 2024 · The history of Carolina Gold rice traces back to before the American Revolution, when the Southeastern U.S. was a rice-growing empire.
- Sam Worley
Sep 6, 2022 · The rice, which came to be known as Carolina Gold, was a natural fit because the region's soils were not only fertile and mushy, but it was also fed with fresh river water that...
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For years, I thought that the Carolina Gold I'd heard countless chefs like Simmons and Brock rave about was the same "Carolina" rice I'd seen a thousand times at my local Stop & Shop or Kroger—the stuff stacked high in clear plastic bags, right next to the Mahatma and the Uncle Ben's. But I was sorely mistaken. What most people think of as Carolina...
While few people know about true Carolina Gold, it was once the most popular rice grown in America, and the first commercial rice the country ever produced. Thousands upon thousands of pounds of it were exported as far away as France, England, and Asia. In 1820, approximately 100,000 acres of it was growing throughout the South. The rice forged the...
Dr. Richard Schulze, a Savannah, Georgia, optometrist, was one of those southerners who read all that rhapsodizing over rice-fed ducks. So, in the mid-1980s, the avid hunter of waterfowl decided to plant some rice in ponds located on his South Carolina vacation property. As an astute researcher, the doctor grew curious about the Carolina Gold he'd ...
After listening to so many people sing the praises of Carolina Gold, I decided to order some for myself from Carolina Plantation Rice. It arrived in a yellow cloth bag, impervious to the light damage Roberts says is detrimental to rice's flavor. At first, I tried it plain and simple, preparing it in my rice cooker on a weekday afternoon. As I sat a...
- Keith Pandolfi
Rice was grown in South Carolina (in the South Carolina Lowcountry) by enslaved people, and led to enormous wealth. [3] It was a staple of Lowcountry cuisine, and at the outset of the Civil War, 3.5 million of the 5 million bushels of rice produced in the United States were Carolina Gold rice.
Mar 8, 2021 · Just before the American Revolution, a woman whose name I may never know disembarked a ship in the harbour of Charleston, South Carolina, destined for a rice field.
Mar 20, 2023 · Per the South Carolina Encyclopedia, nearly three-quarters of the rice grown in the U.S. by 1860 originated in South Carolina, much of which was Carolina Gold. Money from exporting the rice filled the local coffers.
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In the traditional “foundation” story of Carolina rice, a storm-damaged ship en route from Madagascar in 1685 limped into Charleston for repairs. The English ship captain gave some rice seeds to a Charleston doctor, and the Carolina colony’s rice industry supposedly grew from them.
