ROMANCE WITH RICE
published: Thursday | August 18, 2005

Barbara Ellington, Acting Lifestyle Editor

Emma Sharp' seafood risottores served on a bed of white rice. - ANDREW SMITH/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

JAMAICANS HAVE a love affair with rice. There is no getting away from that fact. No matter the merits of complex carbohydrates, lunch or dinner just does not seem complete without it.

And, one would think that for a people with such a passion for the grain, we would have been growing tonnes of it annually. But following our brief experiment of the '70s, only a small amount is reportedly still grown in the island.

So we continue to import large quantities and countries such as Thailand are eyeing their chances of selling us even more.