The history of Rice Cake
Queen of the "poor" recipes, the Rice Cake owes its origin to the wise inventiveness of the dozens of Genoese women who transformed themselves into pickers to contribute to the maintenance of their families, starting from the valleys of the Ligurian hinterland to work on the harvest in the Novara area and in the Vercelli area, where they were also partly repaid with the rice harvested. Furthermore, Ligurian rice was already known due to maritime trade, and in fact it was widely exploited in the kitchen, commonly cooked in milk, it was therefore not wasted when it was left over, thus becoming an excellent base for a filling, adding cheese, a little ' of pepper and some aromatic herbs.