Friday, August 8th, 2008
Kitchen Sisters on NPR: “Birth of Rice-A-Roni”
1940s San Francisco. A young Canadian immigrant and her Italian pasta family husband move into the spare room of an old Armenian woman.
The result of this temporary arrangement? The boxed rice and pasta side dish which — for good or ill — would come to be as strongly associated with San Francisco as the Golden Gate Bridge:
“Rice-A-Roni – the San Francisco Treat”
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