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...Like rice with your onions? Get ready for another food fight. India wants to prevent the U.S. from selling its products as basmati rice, the fluffy, long-grained variety traditionally associated with South Asian cuisine. India has vehemently protested a 1997 U.S. patent granted to a Texas-based company called RiceTec for a genetically engineered variety of basmati developed in the U.S. India's rice crusade won support from demonstrators at the World Trade Organization conference in Seattle last year. And India even achieved rare solidarity with its regional foe, Pakistan, which also exports basmati rice...
...Indian farmers believe the U.S. patent was intended to restrict American imports of their basmati rice and boost sales of RiceTec's products, which are sold under names like Texmati and Kasmati. RiceTec denies those claims and says it developed its rice for "American tastes." Indian basmati is a more delicate grain and has a stronger flavor than the shorter-grained Texmati. Still, Indian politicians have called for an international trademark on basmati that would restrict use of the label to rice that comes from the foothills of the Himalayas...
...Thailand, too, has asked the wto for trademark protection for its famed variety of jasmine rice?the bright white, popcorn-flavored staple served in many Asian-cuisine restaurants. Thai farmers fear that a strain of the rice being developed for American climes by plant geneticist Chris Deren at the University of Florida will significantly cut into the $300 million worth of jasmine rice sold each year...
...Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has threatened to sue Deren and has complained to President Bush. In September, Thai rice farmers marched on the U.S. embassy in Bangkok. Deren even received an e-mail that he says "felt threatening" from an organization urging protest against his research. (It included his home address and phone number.) American companies are already expressing interest in commercializing Deren's strain. And RiceTec sells its own brand, called Jasmati...
...with an Arab, the most important being to go to the table starving: the host will lay on a huge spread and keep heaping your plate. For most Palestinians, of course, having too much to eat is a dream. One of the dishes in the book is mjadarah, or rice with lentils. These ingredients keep well, which helps to explain the dish's popularity in a war zone - a fact, Jamal points out, recognized in United Nations food relief packages. Apart from rice and lentils, mjadarah requires only onions, salt, cumin, water and samneh, or clarified butter. Jamal says...