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- Green, White, and Red Rice
- In The Changing Face of Mexico, page 2.4
- To make the Mexican flag, use one recipe of each color of rice and arrange them in the colors of the flag, with sprigs of parsley in the center. Arroz Verde (Green Rice) Ingredients 1 cup (115g) rice 2...
- Format: recipe
- Irrigating the fields
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 4
- Wet-rice farming requires that plants stand in water during early stages of their growth. The water then must be drained away before the rice fully ripens for harvesting. Bamboo wheels such as the one shown here aid this process of water management in places...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Working in the fields
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 5
- Both men and women work in the wet-rice fields. Rural women living in highland Southeast Asia typically scale high mountains and do hard outdoor physical labor, which keeps them physically fit and strong. With one basket strapped at the waist and another larger...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Foundation of a diet
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 1
- Wherever rice will grow in Southeast Asia, it is grown. Rice is one of the most nutritious and protein-rich grains that humans have domesticated from wild plants. Here, a woman is selling rice in an outdoor market in Hanoi. The round woven basket in front...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Fertile soils
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 2
- This view from an airplane shows where the Mekong River joins Tonlé Sap Lake near Siem Reap in Cambodia. The waterways of the Mekong are the region's primary conduit for local trade and transportation. The Mekong River flows approximately 2,800 miles from...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Wet rice in the highlands
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 3
- This photograph, and most of the photos that follow, was taken in Mai Chau, in the highlands of northwestern Vietnam. In most of Southeast Asia, the highlands are too dry or steep to construct the standing water pools required to nourish wet rice. Therefore,...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- From field to bowl
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 11
- Harvested rice grains generally are stored in their husks until needed for food. At that time, the husks must be removed either in large stone or wood mortars with pestles wielded by farmers, or by the kind of mechanical threshing machine seen here. Such machines...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Winnowing by hand
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 12
- Winnowing trays are round and generally plaited from bamboo strands woven tightly onto a rattan frame. In rural villages, they are made at home by members of every household along with most of their other farming and household tools. Rice grains that have...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Ducks and rice
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 10
- In many parts of Southeast Asia, farmers raise ducks and farm wet-rice fields in a mutually beneficial, or symbiotic, relationship. Duck droppings fertilize the water in which the rice grows. Ducks also eat the algae and other weeds that grow near the young...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Working with animals
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 7
- In addition to providing labor, water buffalo also sometimes are eaten at major community feasts. Traditionally, buffalo were a major source of wealth for Southeast Asian families. They still are favored in highland wet-rice areas where neither humans not...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- A highland farmhouse
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 14
- The farm house shown here, located by a canal at Dong Ha, has a thatch and corrugated metal roof. Corrugated metal roofs are popular among some farmers in Southeast Asia because they are long lasting and fire resistant. They are, however, hotter, noisier,...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Living in the field
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 17
- Highland families may use these small houses on a permanent basis, especially if they are near permanent wet-rice fields. Yet the houses sometimes are moved or abandoned when families cultivate other fields during different years or seasons. The canal running...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Women working
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 21
- The bright green rice plants in the field are still young and unripe. Note, again, the power lines running in the background.
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Protection from the sun
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 6
- Rural women, men, and children throughout Southeast Asia commonly weave their own hats, sleeping mats, and baskets from a variety of palm leaf, bamboo, and rattan fibers. Mountain groups or highlanders are less involved in the national cash economy (often...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Vietnam: Historical background
- Vietnam has strong historical connections to China and India and has been ruled by both China and France. After turmoil and wars in the twentieth century, Vietnam embarked on a program of reform that has opened relations with the United States.
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Street food
- In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 8
- “Street food” is generally freshly made, inexpensive, and readily available throughout urban areas of Southeast Asia. Here, bowls of prepared foods bare stacked high on a round tray which is suspended by ropes carried on a shoulder pole by the...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Women as merchants
- In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 9
- Women throughout Southeast Asia regularly work in outdoor markets, both as preparers and sellers of food items. This woman, at an outdoor market in Hanoi, sells variously colored noodles from large trays. Noodle-making is a fine art in Vietnam, where ingredients...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- River trade
- In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 14
- This boat is docked along the Mekong River near Mytho. Such boats, propelled by outboard motors mounted on the back, are typical, medium-sized river and coastal island ferry boats in Southeast Asia. The waterways of the Mekong are the region's primary conduit...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Water puppets
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 19
- In this water puppet performance in Hanoi, one high status character in the procession rides a wooden horse while the others carry his flag or guard his possessions. Vietnam's unique water puppet tradition is said to date back approximately 1,000 years. Early...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Po Nagar
- In East from India: Cambodia and Southern Vietnam, page 2
- Here, a Cham tower with ascending smaller levels and rounded corner towers is seen through an archway in the Po Nagar complex at Nha Trang in southern Vietnam. Tall arched forms are characteristic of these monuments built of brick and stone by ethnic Chams...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
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