Comments on: The Essential Rice Cookbook (Essential Cookbooks Series) Review

By: Terri J. Rice

Terri J. Rice — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:13:44 +0000

Review by Terri J. Rice for The Essential Rice Cookbook (Essential Cookbooks Series) Rating: I really like this cookbook!
I really like rice! I didn't like rice once upon a time and grew up eating only potatoes. Then one day, I married a man who is crazy about rice and the Minute Rice just wasn't going to cut it.

This cookbook is fantastic.
First of all, the color photographs are wonderfully inspiring, they are large and in color and make you want to try the recipes. And along the side of the recipe page are smaller photos that walk you through the recipe with 'how to' photos.

The book explains the vast variety in rices: Jasmine, long-grain, Basmati, Japanese short-grain, etc. and how to cook them.

A couple favorite recipes are Chicken Biryani and Coulibiac. Biryani is a wonderful Indian dish that I first learned to make from woman visiting from India. Her recipe used 2 cups of oil!! Way too much for me, though the recipe was excellent. The one in this book uses only 1/2 cup, which is much, much better.

The Coulibiac is a wonderful recipe with salmon, rice, mushrooms and onions in a puff pastry. It takes a few simple ingredients and makes them heavenly!

I highly recommend this rice cookbook if you love to eat rice.

By: Dawnimal

Dawnimal — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:26:55 +0000

Review by Dawnimal for The Essential Rice Cookbook (Essential Cookbooks Series) Rating: This is absoultely one cookbook that everyone should own. We own the entire series and there is no other cookbook like it. There are beautiful pictures for every recipe and the recipes are very unique, interesting, and delicious. Several recipes will suggest ingredients that may be difficult or expensive to find but the recipes can also be simplified. My husband loves to cook and looooves this entire series of cookbooks. This cookbook will help any chef tap into their creativity and explore their passion for cooking and take it to a new level.

By: YA Librarian

YA Librarian — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:09:16 +0000

Review by YA Librarian for The Essential Rice Cookbook (Essential Cookbooks Series) Rating: I love rice, but I didn't know how to cook it. Oh, I knew the standard stuff, but thats dull. Some cookbooks have a few recipies but they were the same old standard stuff. Then I bought a copy of this book and I have to say it was worth every penny.

I am a HUGE rice lover and when I got this book I was blown away. The directions are easy too follow (thank God becuase I can't cook!) and the pictures are nice, though I do wish there were more. I've me a lot of different dishes and only one turned out poorly. I will say this; some of the ingredients maybe tricky to find. For example, I couldn't find Saffron threads. But all in all this is my favoriate cookbook because it has so many different recipies from a range of places: India, America, China, Japan etc.

A must have for rice lovers who are tired of the same ol' same ol'.