Moruga’s Historic Rice
By Joel Julien | Link: https://guardian.co.tt/news/morugas-historic-rice-6.2.1279935.b94cf22977 After the British lost the American War of Independence they brought Merikin African Warrior Tribes who fought alongside them to establish their new home in Moruga, Trinidad. And the Merikins brought something special with them; an ancient grain. When the Merikins arrived they met the Warao people that were...
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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