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The Rice Book

The Rice Book

The Definitive Book on Rice, with Hundreds of Exotic Recipes from Around the World

by Sri Owen
Paperback
Publication Date: 15/01/1994

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Containing over 250 rice recipes from around the world, this cookbook also includes information on:

the many varieties of rice

the nutritional value

its history and agriculture

the cults, cultures and myths surrounding it

and its importance through the ages.
ISBN:
9780312303396
9780312303396
Category:
Cookery by ingredient
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
15-01-1994
Language:
English
Publisher:
St. Martin's Griffin
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
416
Dimensions (mm):
236x186x22mm
Weight:
0.73kg
Sri Owen

Sri Owen was born in West Sumatra in 1935, the eldest of six daughters, to parents who were both teachers. After secondary school, she attended Gadjah Mada University at Yogyakarta, where in 1961 she met Roger Owen, a young Englishman arrived fresh from Oxford University, with a three-year contract from the British Council as a lecturer. And he was recruited to teach Western History and English Language & Literature.

When his contract ended, Sri accompanied him back to London, where she worked for some twenty years as a translator, broadcaster and producer with the Indonesian Section of BBC Far Eastern Service. Sri and Roger spent two years travelling the world researching The Rice Book, which was first published in 1993 and won the prestigious André Simon Memorial Award, was shortlisted for the James Beard Award, and a year later, was listed in the Observer, among the twenty best food books published in English.

In total, Sri has written twelve successful cookbooks, most recently Sri Owen’s Indonesian Food, which chronicles her life and details the social history and cooking styles of the islands she loves. Sri is a popular international lecturer on Asian cuisine and has run cookery demonstrations, workshops and courses across the globe. Her unrivalled expertise saw her win the Guild of Food Writers Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017.

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