Although it can be pretty basic, a pot of soft, perfectly-cooked rice is often the best side dish to serve alongside almost anything. It is plain enough to sop up all the flavor from a spicy curry or ...

A grain of knowledge that'll stick with you.

Food & Wine / Photo Illustration by Doan Nguyen / Photo by Robby Lozano / Food Styling by Renu Dhar With that in mind we tasked our test kitchen with identifying the best way to cook basmati rice.

You probably think cooking rice is straightforward: measure, rinse, boil, done. But traditional cultures around the world have been using a simple soaking technique for thousands of years that ...

We tested six methods for cooking rice and this one was the surprising winner. All six methods started with the same prep — rinsing and soaking the rice for 30 minutes — to remove surface starch and ...