# Where can I get fresh rice. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 9, 2002, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-get-fresh-rice/102600 "2002-04-09T02:58:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2002, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-get-fresh-rice/102600/1 "2002-04-09T02:58:51Z")
Not a lead-in to a ‘naughty’ thread. Nor am I seeking opinions on the virtues of rice. A real query, as it were, follows. On [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1979719) **Terminus Est** speaks of the glories of fresh rice. So now I, of an inquiring mind, would like to find some. Not supermarket rice, mind you, but rice I can put in the kettle soon after it’s harvested Do any of the SDMB multitude know where, on the internet or IRL, I can get some? Harvest is late in the year, so we have plenty of time. 🙂 C’mon folks, let’s fight some ignorance here. Use your branes. BTW; I live in Northern California, not far from the rice belt. And I have done the google thing. All I found was [this](http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~frb/). Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2002, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-get-fresh-rice/102600/2 "2002-04-09T03:28:49Z")
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**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2002, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-get-fresh-rice/102600/3 "2002-04-09T03:34:32Z")
Oh, boy. I hope I didn’t overstate the wonders of fresh rice. Back home, with three growing seasons a year, fresh rice is a given. Vendors actually have a special sign if their rice is old (i.e., was harvested in the previous planting season rather than the current one); old rice is also cheaper. I don’t have a clue where you can get some in northern California. [After preview.] And now I see that **DDG** has done her usual Google magic. You might to place your order in now. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-get-fresh-rice/102600/4 "2002-04-10T00:31:59Z")
Oh no, **Terminus Est** , no harm done. It’s not your fault. I’m just mildly obsessive about stuff like that. Been living by myself way too long, I suspect. I claim to be self-reliant but actually I’m kinda wierd. 😛 Some examples; I roast my own coffee in a Whirley\*Pop, and grind it in a manual grinder. I bake bread. I nourish a sourdough starter. I stripped an old stove, and converted the oven into a proofing box. I make ice cream. I’m in the process of obtaining the equipment to preserve olives, which I’ll get from a friend’s backyard next harvest. I live with a cat. My computer is an old iMac. I own a Palm PDA. My backyard is a jungle and I like it that way. I live in Berkeley. 🆒 So this quest of mine is just another new ‘adventure’. And thanks, **Duck Duck Goose** , for the links. Nothing directly about fresh rice, but good starting-place. And I do know where Glen County and Sacramento are. Not far. I’ve set my Palm to remind me to start looking around in September. Peace, mangeorge ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-get-fresh-rice/102600/5 "2002-04-10T03:10:17Z")
You’re welcome. [moving furtively so as to shield freezer full of Banquet TV dinners from Mangeorge’s view] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-get-fresh-rice/102600/6 "2002-04-10T04:13:58Z")
So, are you getting a rice polisher, just like Morimoto? 😉