I like these but would not eat them before going on a date.".
I still consider myself a fan of the stuff.Like most of my favorite things in this world, we have a person of color to thank for the marvel of modern ingenuity that is Minute Rice.. OK, so get this, because the brand website is conveniently missing this very relevant and super important detail.. Ataullah K. Ozai‐Durrani.
, a cousin to the King of Afghanistan, is the original inventor of Minute Rice!Durrani came to the U.S. in 1923 to study petro-chemistry.But after one fateful dinner party at which one of his guests remarked that his chicken-rice was so good, it ought to be served to the public, Durrani, being the noble genius, planter, and bio-chemist that he was, set out to do just that.
He started researching rice, which at the time was notoriously hard to store and prepare, thus scarce in the American market.. After a lot of trial and error—18 years worth to be exact—Durrani perfected a method of parboiling, then dehydrating long-grain white rice so that a little more than a minute and some boiling water was all you needed to bring it back to life.In 1941, he brought his new rice product, a pot, and a portable stove to the General Foods Corporation in New York.
After convincingly demonstrating his "minute rice," the rest is history.
The executives at General Foods (now Kraft, which sold Minute Rice to Riviana Foods Inc. in 2006) were so impressed with the significant reduction in time that they immediately bought the recipe.The recessed finger grips help with handling either side of the reversible board, so it could be used for cutting on one side and displaying on the other.
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