Almost everybody eats rice, and billions of people depend on it to stay alive. Folks, that's what they call a staple.
Many people think of rice as an Asian crop, but the United States produces countless tons of it.
And much of that is cultivated in the rich Rice Belt of Texas. But let's stop all the talk about food. The real point of this story is that they grow other things in the Rice Belt. And some of them are every bit as scrumptious as a steaming plate of pilaf. We're talking about Katherine Perello , Miss Rice Belt Teen USA, who actually puts pilaf to shame.