| Jan. 1st, 2005 @ 03:53 am Happy New Year! and thoughts on rice. |
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So my mom's latest thing is broken rice. That's where you set the rice cooker so the rice on the bottom gets all browned and crunchy and then you flip it out and pour gravy over it. The rice-crust is really good, toasty and chewy at the same time. My mom says you can only do this really well with the Iranian rice cooker she got at the Iranian store (or maybe it's Persian?). She got it to replace our old Chinese rice cooker which she got decades ago in Chinatown. She says that because she also really likes Indian rice, she went all around trying to find an Indian-manufactured rice cooker, but couldn't. From this she concludes that Indian families must still make all their rice the old-fashioned way, which she says explains why Indian women are less empowered than women in other parts of the world, because they're still stuck watching this little pot of rice and making sure it doesn't burn, while the women in Iran and China can take the time to learn how to use Photoshop or Quicken or whatever while the rice cooker is doing its thing. My mom's never been to India, but she says they don't have as many electrified cities as we do.
So we had that for dinner and then I went out to try to find a party with my friend Savi who is Indian and asked her about it, and she says she doesn't even know how to make rice. Go girls! In the future we will have avatars to do all this stuff for us anyway. Hopefully they will also be able to find us better New Year's parties. |
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