| According to legend, rice
was introduced to America around 1694 when a ship bound
for England was forced to stop in Charleston, South
Carolina, for repairs. The ship's captain bartered for
the costly repairs with a small portion of his cargo of
rice. This inexpensive portion of a rather unexciting
cargo was the beginning of the rice fields which were to
line the swampy riverbanks from Charleston to Savannah,
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