Table of Contents The Magic of Rice Introduction Growing Rice in Your Garden Harvesting Your Rice Types of Rice Difference between Parboiled Rice and Instant Rice Pests and Diseases Pesticides and Botanicals Popular Rice Cultivars Rice Dishes Cooking Rice Reviving Overcooked Rice Steamed Rice Traditional Pilavs and Biriyanis Savory Pilau With Chicken Biryani Traditional Biryani - spiced Meat Pilau Brown Rice and Polished Rice Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction Bless that hungry nomad millenniums ago, who while traveling over the grasslands, suddenly found that there was a wild grass growing and its seed when collected could be cooked and eaten to provide him and his hungry family with the most nourishing food available. This is an ordinary grain of rice, a grass growing all over the world, and consumed thankfully by millions globally, every day. In fact, it is the staple diet of the major population in Asia. "Rice bowls" of the world are places where rice is grown extensively and which feed not only the native population, but the population of other parts of the world.