Rice and pasta are some of the most popular foods on the planet. Satisfying, tasty and versatile, they can be a side dish plain on their own or the main dish, served creamy with sauce or stir ...

The puffy white grains of boiled rice may feel proud at the fact that their ancestry is almost 5,000 years older than the twisters or penne or macaroni tubules sitting in a pasta bowl. While this ...

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We found that rice cereal and rice pasta can have much more inorganic arsenic—a carcinogen—than our 2012 data showed. According to the results of our new tests, one serving of either could put ...

Packed with protein and bursting with vegetables, this dish gives three of your five-a-day. Each serving provides 250 kcal, 24g protein, 18g carbohydrate (of which 16.5g sugars), 7g fat (of which ...

They have looked at how grains of different size and shape, including dry pasta tubes and rice, separate into distinct layers when shaken. Jia and colleagues claim to bring something new to this ...

Although sometimes confused for rice, orzo is a short pasta. In this one-pot recipe from legendary chef Nigella Lawson, it soaks up the flavors of an entire chicken and two lemons, plus other ...

Prawns are richly seasoned, seared and served on orzo flavoured with tomatoes, olives and peppers and topped with a drizzle ...