| There is an amazing array of rice available on every supermarket and specialty grocery shelf. From wonderful plain rice ready for rice recipes such as Chinese, basmati, and Thai jasmine to packaged rice that include seasonings designed to give the home chef the perfect accompaniment to a lunch or dinner menu.
Rice, the most popular grain in the world, comes in a variety of textures, colors, sizes, and tastes. Long and short grain rice are the two shapes we cook with on a daily basis. Long grain is long and slender, short grain rice is short, plump, and more translucent. Rice is not rice, as we commonly think. Rice dishes will call for specific rice in their preparation. Some rice cook up dry with each grain separate from the others, while other rice contain more starch and the grains have a tendency to stick together more. So, it is important to note the type of rice the recipe calls for and either find and use that particular rice, or at the least, be careful with substitutions.
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