num_pages: 110
description: Among the staple foods most welcomed on southern tables-and on tables around the world-rice is without question the most versatile. As Michael W. Twitty observes depending on regional tastes rice may be enjoyed at breakfast lunch and dinner; as main dish side dish and snack; in dishes savory and sweet. Filling and delicious rice comes in numerous botanical varieties and offers a vast range of scents tastes and textures depending on how it is cooked. In some dishes it is crunchingly crispy; in others soothingly smooth; in still others somewhere right in between. Commingled or paired with other foods rice is indispensable to the foodways of the South.
language: English
title: Rice: A Savor the South Cookbook
publisher: The University of North Carolina Press