If you're a fan of Indian, Thai, other South and Southeast Asian, and Middle Eastern cuisines, you've undoubtedly eaten basmati rice and jasmine rice. Both are wonderfully fragrant and often used as ...

In Southeast Asia, jasmine rice tastes and—more importantly—smells like home. In South Asia and the Middle East, long, elegant basmati is the indispensable variety that graces the table.

Basmati rice (pronounced baas-mathi, with the stress on the baas) falls in the category of aromatic rice. This category is ...