[Sca-cooks] Partly OP: Brown vs. white rice?

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

I don't know what kind of rice "brown rice" is, but i won't eat it, 
and i rarely ate it even when i was a strict vegetarian. It's nasty 
stuff in my experience.

Unpolished rice is not necessarily like American brown rice. I've 
eaten rice that hadn't been polished to whiteness when i lived in 
Indonesia and it was tasty, not like American brown rice. The junk 
that is sold in America as brown rice is definitely an inferior rice.

Then again, i won't buy white rice grown in the US, because American 
white rice is grossly inferior rice. One of the ways people bought 
rice in Indonesia was to smell it. Good rice is fragrant, and 
different rices smell different. I buy South or Southeast Asian rices 
because they actually smell and taste good. I don't even buy American 
rice for SCA feasts. I may compromise on some ingredients to save 
some money, but not the rice.

Also, a nice high quality white rice soaks up sauces which brown rice 
won't, so brown rice doesn't fit well into many cuisines.

Anahita
Strong-Opinions-R-Us