Taste
/teɪst/
noun
the sensation of flavour perceived in the mouth and throat on contact with a substance.
What do we recall of the taste of rice? The memories of the earlier generations boast the superior tastes their rice used to have, from Kachin rice in Myanmar to Champa rice in Vietnam and Mentik Susu and Pandanwangi in Indonesia. These are just a handful of the forgotten/lost local rice varieties. With the loss of thousands of local rice seed varieties to monoculture in paddy fields today, can we rediscover what the TASTE of local rice was like in the past?
Eating rice with chopsticks. Video by ExpertVillage Leaf Group
While we cannot rediscover the taste of lost indigenous rice varieties, these visual abstracts offer us a visual memory to indulge in the TASTE of different rice through different ways of eating rice and the dishes it complements with.
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