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| | Letters, Winter 2001 |
 | | It was somebody’s job (usually women) to pound the brown rice with a stick to make it white. |
| | But peasants 150 years ago probably could not afford to eat rice daily, but ate other grains, such as millet, barnyard grass and so forth. |
| | During World War II and right after the war, many could not have rice as much either (or adequate amounts of food, for that matter), and had very thin rice soup with potatoes, for example. |
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