Flu, I don’t eat rice, except maybe a bite or two with curry on rare occasions.
When I lived in Thailand I said “no rice please” an average of twice a day. Probably low carb diets have spread over there by now, but not in 2005. Thais gave me shocked, unbelieving faces. “It comes with rice!” About a third of the time they ignored me and gave me the rice anyway.
I visited rice farms, shrimp farms, and palm oil plantations, all interesting. Other than the heat and tropical plants, it wasn’t too different than rural Ohio: pick up trucks, manure smells, and giant bigbox stores.
