Cooking rice sounds easy, but getting those perfect, fluffy grains without sticking, clumping, or undercooking can sometimes feel like a mystery. That’s where the 12-12 rule comes in—and it’s a total ...

Although it's been used in the kitchen for generations, you might be surprised to hear that wild rice isn't actually rice at all — it's a seed. This North American, semi-aquatic grass grows in bays, ...

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 ...

Grain salads don’t only hold their own against leafy salads — they often outshine them. And you know what countertop appliance really aids in said salads? A rice cooker! With "Top Chef" heading to ...

The Star Tribune published its first wild rice soup recipe on Dec. 17, 1975. In the intervening years, more than 60 iterations have followed, which probably makes wild rice soup, in all its variations ...

Many of those 60-plus wild rice soup recipes appeared in the section’s former Restaurant Requests column, a decadeslong feature where readers asked Taste staffers to diligently track down recipes of ...