love drowns out hate

[glass_icarus]

Talk to me about rice- the magic of it, the wholeness of it, the surprising sweetness that blooms on your tongue in a slow, lingering mouthful, the flavors that vary between different grains. Talk to me about congee and biryani and onigiri and fan tuan and zhong zi and the crisped scrapings from the bottom of the pot that you can eat with peanut sugar or pour tea over to loosen the grains. Talk to me about mochi and guo ba and the addictive nature of rice crackers. Talk to me about rice.

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[suaine]

My family are potato people to the bone, but I've always had a deep love for rice, despite the cheap, cultureless kind my mother used to buy. Now our cupboard is stocked with rice for sushi, wild rice, basmati and thai and once I can convince my mother that a rice cooker is essential, I think I shall be perfectly happy :)

[glass_icarus]

Rice cookers! &hearts I mean, it is obviously possible to cook rice without one, but I for one have never done it- I've never been without a rice cooker. (Except for college, as noted above, when Things Were Sad. *g*)

[lady_ganesh]

Hubby and I bought ourselves a rice cooker for our anniversary one year. WE HAVE NEVER REGRETTED IT.