Bread or Rice or Both?

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Taipei Times: Japan finds way to deal with excess rice: Make bread
As the Japanese increasingly turn away from rice, the longtime staple of their diet, baker Koichi Fukumori believes he has found a solution to boost the heavily subsidized crop: Turn it into bread. The crispy baguettes coming out of Fukumori's ovens look and taste just like the bread the Japanese have grown to love, but there is one big difference. More than 80 percent of his bread is made of rice. "This is the only way to survive for rice farmers," Fukumori said. A range of bread made out of rice is offered at his shop, Aoimugi ("Green Wheat"), at a bread theme park that opened Thursday in one of Japan's largest shopping malls, LaLaport, near Tokyo [Funabashi]...more...