The one purchased over the holidays for celebratory appetizers and desserts that now finds itself lonely and left in the cold?
The starches contained within rice were strong enough to secure the stones used to.build the Great Wall of China.
And yet the meticulous methods required for rice's cultivation and cookery have long made it the grain of choice in royal kitchens.Whether you enjoy it as polo, biryani, or risotto, rice is both grain of the people and delicacy of the rich and powerful.. Rice Is Everything.There are many forms of rice.
Most — though not all — are varieties of Oryza sativa, the Asian rice grain originally domesticated during the Neolithic Revolution.Today you have access to more kinds of rice than a Persian monarch, each with its own biochemistry and virtues in the pot.
It pays to understand the differences between them.
This is a guide to many of the most common varieties, with notes on how to cook them, so that you too can participate in this essential culinary tradition that stretches back to the earliest days of human civilization.. Photo by Antonis Achilleos / Prop Styling by Christina Daley / Food Styling by Margaret Monroe Dickey.I often say that the friendship of my colleagues is perhaps the best part of my career as a cook.. — Bill Smith.
So about that shrimp.The first thing I did was to run home and make a batch.
I followed Ben’s recipe exactly.It is out of his world.