As you can imagine, I was flattered when a reader told me that she enjoyed my recipe for cooked rice so much, she was inspired to right a poem! Like boiling an egg, cooking rice is one of those basic tasks that seems like it should be easy - but can go wrong so quickly. Here are my step by step instructions, with photos, for cooking rice that will turn out light and fluffy every time.

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• Revitalizing Rice- History, Origins, and Types of Rice
• Top Chinese Rice Recipes
• Basic Fried Rice - my most popular rice recipe

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