Blitz the cauliflower in a food processor until it has a fine, rice-like texture.
Its image reveals two dominant features, a darkening toward the outermost regions, called limb darkening, and a fine rice-grain-like structure called granulation.
2. Force potato flesh through a fine ricer or sieve.
Popular stops are Soramame, an old Japanese public bath renovated into a chic modern Japanese bar and Tarahuku, a bistro that offers Japanese western fusion dishes with a fine rice-wine selection.
Water boils at 88C, so while a cup of tea tastes fine, rice takes a lot longer to cook; salt reacts differently, so you need to season dishes more; and bread is reluctant to rise.
Gather up a few pounds, and you can make the satiny potato puree for which the Michelin three-star chef Joel Robuchon is famous: the boiled potatoes should be pureed through a very fine ricer, and for each pound of potatoes add a quarter pound to a half pound of butter.
In late November, university officials, including Pernetti, decided to suspend and fine Rice rather than fire him when a former assistant brought a video to their attention that showed Rice berating his players.
Poori, the puffy deep-fried bread, was greasier than most on one try, but that could have been a fluke; the special bread filled with nuts, raisins and coconut was more interesting and almost could have slid in with the desserts, alongside a fine crushed rice pudding flavored with saffron (kesari phirni) and the house-made pistachio ice cream (badshahi pista kulfi).
At Yunnan Rainbow, the dish is prepared tableside, with the raw ingredients and fine rice noodles poached in the broth.
Just as satisfying, with its bright, haunting flavor, was bara-chirashi, in which tiny strips of seasoned eel, omelet, crab and cucumber mingled with that fine rice.
