Sometimes called Charleston red rice, red rice really owes a great debt to the enslaved Africans who brought their knowledge of rice and vegetable farming to the United States," Meggett writes.

Add a 6 oz can of tomato paste and 12 oz of water. Simmer for 10-15 minutes. Add 1½ pounds of raw rice to the steamer and let it get hot while the sauce is simmering.

Red foods are traditional, and, in the spirit of the holiday, we have loads of brightly hued inspiration for you, whether you make Millie Peartree’s Charleston red rice (above) or Jerrelle Guy ...

Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg has proclaimed Sept. 29, 2018 as Red Rice Day in Charleston, and the community is invited to celebrate the soul food staple at this year's 35th annual Moja Festival.

Just when it seems like nothing Donald Trump could do still has the capacity to surprise, here comes KJ Kearney saying Trump is indirectly responsible for the creation of Red Rice Day. “Everyone ...

The City of Charleston is helping to usher in this year’s MOJA Arts Festival by officially proclaiming Sat. Sept. 29, 2018 as “Red Rice Day,” in honor of the traditional Gullah Geechee dish.

Red rice, the quintessential Southern favorite, has been around for nearly 300 years, a time-tested cultural and gastronomic legacy from the world's once most prosperous rice growing area.

Most contemporary recipes for this dish, a Southern classic that alternately goes by Savannah, Charleston, Lowcountry or Spanish rice, call for canned tomatoes.

“Red rice goes back to the old, old days — the days before me, my momma, and her,” writes Emily Meggett in her new book, out next week, “Gullah Geechee ...