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Whether or not you love rice, it remains as the most important crop in Asia. Rice is a key part in many people's diets, serving as carbohydrate substitute for those who don't consume bread or potato. It comes in different colours and types, such as brown, white, short-grained, medium-grained, long-grained, and can be used for different types of meals. Medium-grain rice, for example, is used for risotto in Italy.

Generally, rice is cooked by boiling or steaming. Electric rice cookers, popular in Asia and Latin America, are used to simplify the process of cooking rice. In Arab cuisine, rice is used to stuff vegetables or is wrapped in grape leaves. When combined with milk, sugar and honey, it is used to make desserts. In Japanese cuisine, rice is popularly used for sushi, in which it is wrapped with seaweed and joined with vegetables and many various seafood items, like crab, shrimp or eel. Rice can also be bought parboiled, and cooking it is as easy as popping it in the microwave and heating it up for two minutes. You can even make rice porridge from rice by adding more water than usual, and this is commonly eaten as breakfast food, or as food for the sick.

The important thing with rice is, you don't have to be Asian to love it. You can enjoy it with other types of food, like poultry, fish, meat or vegetables, or turn it into sushi, porridge or even fried rice. Whatever your preference may be, you're sure to find the perfect type of rice that suits your taste if you browse your local grocery store or search online.

Source: wikipedia.org
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