Rice cultivation in the Náchod region in the 16th century

Nowadays, almost everyone associates the cultivation of rice only with Asian cuisine, and therefore thinks that it was cultivated only here and during the modern age it spread to other places with a similar climate, but the opposite is true, because it should have reached Europe already with the troops of Alexander the Great, perhaps even earlier, and in ancient Rome it became a sought-after delicacy. However, this is not such a big surprise…