UN launches book on rice recipes
AFP, Geneva
From flattened rice delight in Bangladesh to Britain's traditional rice pudding, the United Nations has published a book of 300 rice recipes to mark the end of the International Year of Rice, its editor said yesterday. The recipes come from all over the world, with no particular bias towards major rice-consuming nations such as Japan, which only contributed one recipe, and China, which managed five, said its editor-in-chief Jean-Michel Jakobowicz. "Perhaps Japanese people, they like to eat (rice) but they have no time to write (recipes) or they don't want to share their secrets," Jakobowicz told a news conference in Geneva where the book "Rice: Around the World in 300 Recipes" was launched. Priced at 25 dollars (19 euros) and only available for the time being in English and French, profits generated by the rice cook book will be donated to nutrition programmes by the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef).
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