“True basmati rice comes exclusively from certain regions of India and Pakistan,” Johnson adds. However, basmati varieties are now grown in places like California, where Lundberg is based, and in ...

Similarly, Lundberg Family Farms grows a version of basmati in California and calls it ... golden due to the aging process.

In Southeast Asia, jasmine rice tastes and—more importantly—smells like home. In South Asia and the Middle East, long, elegant basmati ... farmer Brita Lundberg of California-based Lundberg ...