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17-Jul-2007, 22:54
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There are cakes made from almost every kind of grain. Rice biscuits are more usual than rice cakes in the UK. |
17-Jul-2007, 23:19
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Originally Posted by Anglika  There are cakes made from almost every kind of grain. Rice biscuits are more usual than rice cakes in the UK. | I thought the Westerners don't eat rice but other grains only.  |
17-Jul-2007, 23:37
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On the contrary, rice has been eaten in Europe for hundreds of years, is grown widely in Italy, and also in North America. It is only one of many grains eaten. There are not as many different rices used as in the East, but that is because there are alternatives. |
17-Jul-2007, 23:39
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We’ve a large Asian population (Chinese, Filipino, Punjabi, South Asian & etc.) in Vancouver. You can find and enjoy all kinds of Asian foods here you couldn’t even imagine. Come for a visit & you'll see!  |
18-Jul-2007, 00:32
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Originally Posted by Buddhaheart We’ve a large Asian population (Chinese, Filipino, Punjabi, South Asian & etc.) in Vancouver. You can find and enjoy all kinds of Asian foods here you couldn’t even imagine. Come for a visit & you'll see! | I have had a lot, thank you! We have various ways of cooking glutinous rice here, every town in the Philippines has it's own way. Imagine the Philippines having 7,107 islands, and many of those Islands have, at least, 10 towns, and each town has it's own version of cooking glutinous rice. How many do you have now?  |
18-Jul-2007, 09:01
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How many glutinous rice dishes do you need? |
18-Jul-2007, 09:11
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The other type of rice (not the sticky rice) I know here in Germany is Basmati which is widely used in Middle Eastern cuisine. But Basmati is trade mark or a kind of Indian rice. Btw very delicious when eaten with okra. |
18-Jul-2007, 15:39
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"Okra, the killer vegetable!" (scrawled on the elevator wall in the ag building when I was in college). :)
Blouen, years ago I think there were indeed large swaths of the US where rice was practically never eaten and potatoes or bread served as the starch at every meal. When electric rice cookers were introduced, back in the 1970s I think, my mom got a part-time job demonstrating one because it was thought that since people in south Louisiana ate more rice than elsewhere in the country, the appliances might sell well in our area. But I don't believe they did, even though the advertising stressed that it could also be used to steam vegetables as well as cook rice. |
19-Jul-2007, 07:04
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The same is true in the UK; my grandmother and many of her generation never ate rice, apart from in rice pudding. She also never ate yoghurt as she couldn't understand why people would pay money for milk that had gone bad. |
19-Jul-2007, 07:12
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Originally Posted by Tdol The same is true in the UK; my grandmother and many of her generation never ate rice, apart from in rice pudding. She also never ate yoghurt as she couldn't understand why people would pay money for milk that had gone bad. | Your grandma is right Richard. People not only pay me for milk that had gone off but also for cigarrettes or pipe tobacco (me). There is no logic. Rice is better. Have you eaten rice with okra? | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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