Brown Japanese Rice

Our rice-farming friends Yasuko and Kanda eat brown or semi-milled rice perhaps once a day. They like brown rice for its grain taste and nutritional value. It must also taste to them of their labor in the rice field, their ground, their sun, their rain.

Some of our favorite brown rices are the organic rices grown by the Lundberg brothers in California. They grow both long-grain brown and Japanese-style brown rice. Because the bran is left on, brown rice retains more of the residue o