Rice is grown in seven American States
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California -The 1848 Gold Rush introduced Chinese cuisine |
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The Gold Rush provided the impetus for the introduction of rice cultivation to California, the second largest growing state. Rice is grown in the Sacramento area, also home to the California wine industry. |
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San Francisco's historic
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Chinese workers, attracted to the state by the prospect of gold, which soon ran out, stayed on to help build the railroads and rice was farmed to feed them. Chinese Americans are still a major ethnic group in California. San Francisco is famous for its Chinatown where Chop Suey, was invented. |  |
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California was swamped with eager gold prospectors including many Chinese. |
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