With a depth of passion and experience, as well as the ability to embrace and convey the richness of place and taste, the authors of the book embarked on a distant journey to find the most substantial and satisfying food in the world. Along the way, they experienced first-hand dozens of varieties of rice, which offered an unimaginable subtlety of flavor, as well as a staggering array of foods, to accompany it. And here's the glorious result: two hundred easy-to-cook dishes from the world's great rice cuisines, illuminated by stories, insights and more than two hundred photographs of people, places and wonderful food. Cherished dishes - Chinese steer fry, Spanish paella, Japanese sushi, Indian thoran, Thai salads, Turkish pilaf, Italian risotto - are offered not only as recipes, but as time-honored traditions. Seductions of Rice will change how we eat, how we cook and how we value our food. It's as simple as putting a cup of rice to cook!