>From: Neil Bernstein <BERNSTEN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>I normally use long grain or basmati brown rice. My HFS is
>running a sensational sale (45 cents a pound) on brown short
>grain rice. Neither I nor the HFS clerk knows the difference, if
>any, between short and long grain.
>Can someone enlighten me before the sale ends (August
Short grain rice is much stickier. If I'm making a sizzling rice soup, for
example, I use short grain brown rice because it's sticky. If you're
looking for that kind of rice that falls apart into individual grains, this
is NOT it :) It's delicious, but clumpy and sticky.
Lisa Greenwood
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