hahabogus wrote on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:12:43 GMT:

??>> plain
??>> rice of any type is best and most easily cooked in a
??>> Japanese-style automatic rice cooker.

h> Which is plain rice to you? To me in Canada it is a long
h> grain basmati...In japan it is a medium grain rice mostly.
h> To some in the USA it is Uncle Ben's converted (par boiled)
h> rice. In Italy the short grains are more commonly used.

Any unflavored rice that is to be served as an accompanying
starch is "plain rice" to me. I'm sorry that I am a heretical
non-connoisseur of rice and don't worry much about type:
arborio, short grain, long grain, basmati etc.:-)

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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