The Rice Book

by Sri Owen

Looks at the history of rice, offers advice on cooking rice, and shares recipes for soups, appetizers, main dishes, side dishes, and desserts that feature rice

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food, Food and Drink, Reference, Culinary, Nonfiction

402 pages, Paperback

First published October 21, 1993

Reviews

[catechism · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have been wanting to read this book since The Great Rice Meltdown Of 2015, in which I went to the grocery store for rice and promptly freaked out because there were two entire aisles of it and I felt I did not know enough about rice to make a decision, and so bought like a 75-cent bag of minute rice and then went home and cried. (There may have been some other things going on in my life.) But it turns out that what I actually want to read is more like a rice guide: for X type of food, Y type of rice. This is not that book. It is, instead, a collection of poorly written Rice Facts, plus a lot of recipes. The search continues!

[MIL · Rating 1 out of 5]

翻譯非常糟糕
書本身編排也不理想的怪書
本以為會介紹米的各種知識
結果只在第一章草草帶過
而且幾乎只講東南亞，旁及部份歐美
東亞幾個稻米大國反而沒啥寫到
幾乎全部的篇幅都是食譜

翻譯超悲劇
許多專有名詞完全不知所云
如細菌血漿，怎麼想都想不出原文會是啥
還有雜訊很多的碾魔機
我只看過把雜訊翻錯成吵
這還是第一次看過反過來的誤譯...

還有譯者不知道馬來西亞華人與當地人混血女性叫娘惹
音譯為諾依恩亞或諾恩亞，至少比細菌血漿好一點...

最不解的是明明是繁中版，看來也不像是簡轉繁的書
居然把我國翻做中國台灣...

以上只是我還記得的怪翻譯
剩下不通順，不知所云的地方族繁不及備載

大部份食譜我個人都沒啥興趣...
米還是當主食單吃就好~

[Aida]

my copy is a beautiful hardbound. very interesting. it describes the culture, the myth and the cult around rice in contries where rice is staple food. all of a sudden, rice is not simply a steamy bowl of food that i have taken lightly.

[Alayne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hm ... some lovely ideas in here and I would like to eat more rice :)