We get cooking oil, sometimes rice, and flour.

BBC: Iraq struggles to reform 'inefficient' rationing system

In interviews, Rice has gently criticized Secretary of State Madeleine Albright for her triumphalism--"Carrying power quietly is sometimes a good thing, " Rice says--and expressed disquiet at seeing the U.S. military mobilized for far-flung humanitarian interventions.

CNN: Condi Rice can't lose

She had saved thousands of Chinese civilians from the Japanese, sometimes giving them her own last ration of rice.

ECONOMIST: Obituary

Aesha sets the table while the woman she sometimes calls mother, sometimes aunt, prepares a traditional Afghan feast featuring heaping platters of rice, lamb and chicken kebab.

CNN: Saving Aesha