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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...