Rice. The foundation of many global cuisines, from East Asia to South India to the Pacific islands, rice lands on our plates in various colors and forms and flavors, highlighting the convergence of what we eat with where we came from. This versatile grain, central to so many diets, is yet another way in which we can be both different and the same.
Photos and reporting in order from left to right: Kristin Chang, Anjana Melvin, Mingjie Zhong, Caitlyn Tjong
