Cooking perfect rice

Cooking perfect rice

There are many types of rice, but the most popular varieties used in Asian cooking are:  Basmati and Patna. Basmati is the ‘Prince’ of rice, grown in India and Pakistan. It is a type of long-grain rice, but it is more slender and when cooked releases a...
The Story of Spice

The Story of Spice

Spice first came over to England as far back as the 14th century, in 1309.  It was in the court of King Richard II that his palace cooks produced the first English recipe book ‘The Forme of Curry’.  In the King’s Cookbook there was a dish of chicken stew that...