Common Grain celebrates rice as a universal, unifying, accessible ingredient. Common Grain does this by highlighting how rice has shaped and influenced various cultures around the world. Rice was and is one of the most influential crops of human existence. Many countries and cultures around the world have cultivated rice for thousands of years. Common Grain explores how rice cultivation has sculpted and influenced the history of cultures around the world by examination of cuisine.

Tasting Menu

Onigiri

Risotto

Arroz con Leche

Onigiri

Onigiri is a dish that originated in Japan between 200 BC and 250 AD. It was traditionally eaten as a snack/appetizer by samurai, fishermen, and travelers. The rice type used is sticky rice. The triangular shape that we see today is actually due to the mass production of the food.

Risotto

Glass blowers of southern Italy used saffron as a pigment in glass. Poorer glass blowers used whatever spices they could afford to add to their rice, one of these was saffron. This use of spices led to the creation of what is recognized as risotto. This was a contrast as rice was largely considered food for the high class people, but it became plentiful enough that it became accessible.

Arroz Con Leche

how meso-American flavors perserverd in a new environment of colonialism

Medium Grain white rice was brought to

meso-america by Spanish colonizers in the early 1500s. Spanish colonization destroyed much of the local agriculture creating a dependency on rice.

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