Some 13 years after it appeared in stores, his design for a canned rice-wine cocktail still looks fresh -- unadorned aluminum save for the brand name in different colors to indicate flavor.

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And restaurants in these areas serve indigenous meals, including rice in bamboo stalks, roasted wild boar and millet wine.

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Rosie spent life in a custom ranch house in California's wine country and exercised in an airy, sunlit building on an earthen floor covered with clean hulls of rice.

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