Finding a Lost Strain of Rice, and Clues to Slave Cooking
The search for the missing grain led to Trinidad and Thomas Jefferson, and now excitement among African-American chefs. Upland red bearded rice, which grows in the Moruga district in Trinidad, turned out to be a missing culinary link between enslaved people in coastal Georgia and a group of slaves who were able to buy their...
Moruga Hill rice goes global
by Radhica De SilvaThu Sep 27 2018 https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/moruga-hill-rice-goes-global-6.2.677916.b90c635cfc Minister of Agriculture Clarence Rambharat, left, Trade Minister Paula Gopee-Scoon and Moruga MP Dr Lovell Francis examine rice which is shown by agri-entrepreneur CEO Caribbean Sea and Air Marketing, Mark Forgenie. KRISTIAN DE SILVA RADHICA DE SILVA radhica.sookraj@guardian.co.tt The highly nutritious Moruga Hill rice,—T&T’s only indigenous rice—...
Resurrection Rice | Cookup
Brought to Trinidad from West Africa via the United States, Moruga hill rice was a staple of the Merikin community for generations, writes Franka Philip. Now entrepreneur Mark Forgenie wants to make this traditional food available to all By Franka Philip | Issue 156 (March/April 2019) Moruga hill rice for all As children, Mark Forgenie and his brother...
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