It requires a longer soak than white sticky rice but has a more complex texture, natural sweetness, and subtle fruit-and-pandan aroma.

It adds texture and an almost indescribable fresh funk to everything.The following day, I soft-scramble the infused raw eggs for breakfast.

They taste like I cooked them in truffle oil.. Get the F&W Pro Newsletter.Learn more here.Brooklyn, New York.Kiersten Hickman is a Sommelier with a Level 4 Diploma from Le Cordon Bleu London, and an experienced food and beverage journalist for 10+ years..

Hickman's work has been published in Eating Well, Simply Recipes, The Kitchn, Taste of Home, Stacker, Eat This, Not That!, Reader’s Digest, INSIDER, and others.She has worked in editorial and social media positions over the past decade, developing digital content strategies for award-winning publications and brands.

She also writes Cellar Notes, a Substack newsletter dedicated to making wine accessible for people who love it, but don’t get it.

Her passion is in elevating people’s experiences when they gather around a table and share a bottle of wine.. Education.Add the reserved pickled carrots and daikon (1 cup total) as well as the cabbage, chicken, shallot, chopped mint and cilantro, and toss well.

Season with salt and pepper, garnish with the cilantro sprigs, and serve..Originally appeared: June 2008.The Midwest may be the last place many wine drinkers think of when seeking their next bottle.

But consider Michigan, the Great Lakes State, as perhaps the country’s “third coast.” It’s a region where the soils, climate, and grapes come together for wines as crisp and inviting as the blue-green waters of Lake Michigan..Most of Michigan vineyards and wineries span the state’s “fruit belt,” which hugs Lake Michigan’s coast from the Indiana border to the Mackinaw Bridge..