Jeffrey Alford & Naomi Duguid, “Seductions of Rice: A Cookbook”, 1998 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Jeffrey Alford & Naomi Duguid, “Seductions of Rice: A Cookbook”, 1998, PART TWO (II).
COMMENTS.
Jeffrey Alford & Naomi Duguid were a husband and wife, couple known for cookbooks of their world travels.
BELOW is the list of the world largest city since 300 BC.
WORLD LARGEST CITY.
Pataliputra (Patna) Bihar INDIA 300 BC, 200,000 people.
Rome 25 BC
Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey 340 AD 400,000 people.
Ctesiphon, Iraq 570 AD
Changan (Xi’an), China 637 AD 400,000 people.
Baghdad, Iraq 775 AD Over 1 million people.
Cordova, Spain 935 AD
Kaifeng, China 1013 AD 400,000 people.
Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey 1127 AD
Merv, Turkmenistan 1145 AD 200,000 people.
Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey 1153 AD
Fez (Fes), Morocco 1170 AD
Hangzhou, China 1180 AD 255,000 people.
Cairo, Egypt 1315 AD.
Hangzhou, China 1348 AD 432,000 people.
Nanking, China 1358 AD 487,000 people.
Beijing, China 1425 AD 600,000 people.
Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey 1650 AD 700,000 people.
Beijing, China 1710 AD 900,000 people.
London, England 1825 AD 1.35 million people.
New York City, United States 1925 AD 7.774 million people.
Tokyo, Japan 1965 AD 23 million people.
Pataliputra (Patna) Bihar INDIA 300 BC, 200,000 people was the largest city in the world. Bihar INDIA is pilgrimage state for Buddhist travelers; and, this accounts for its status as world largest city in 300 BC.
Here I presented: Jeffrey Alford & Naomi Duguid, “Seductions of Rice: A Cookbook”, 1998, PART TWO (II).
REMARKS.
Jeffrey Alford & Naomi Duguid were a husband and wife, couple known for cookbooks of their world travels.
Extra-long, basmati rice is grown in INDIA almost exclusively (shown BELOW).
In the culinary world, this Indian rice is the polar opposite to Japanese sticky, short-grain rice. The Japanese use sticky, short-grain because of its role in making sushi. Japan is a Buddhist country of rice as its primary grain.
Pataliputra (Patna) Bihar INDIA is the home “thali”. While “Bihari thali” has variations it uses “extra-long, basmati rice”. Since 300 BC , when Pataliputra (Patna) Bihar INDIA was the largest city in world “Bihari thali” has been the standard for other states in India to match. The rice at the center of the “Bihari thali” has become the standard for Buddhist meals worldwide.
