Nicole and Brown Rice Pilaf

It was nice to see Nicole last night, for only the second time since Africa. She was part of the student group from USC that went to Capetown to intern for six weeks in their last year of graduate school. The Great PD interned at Bush Radio north of Capetown on that trip, and afterwards he, 5H, Plot and Duck drove all over South Africa and Swaziland for another month. Nicole has moved to SP and discovered one small sort-of room in a decent enough neighborhood for which she is fortunate to pay only the price of a 2-bedroom house in most other cities.



For dinner, Plotnik made zaatar chicken and fatoush salad. He wanted to make a brown rice pilaf, so he went searching for one. He found the above pilaf on Debbie from Brooklyn's blog (http://wordstoeatby.blogspot.com/2005/03/nobodys-perfect-but-this-baked-brown.html.) He has no idea who Debbie from Brooklyn is, but he is thankful for her fabulous recipe. The step of toasting the rice until it almost burns makes all the difference in the world. The only drawback is it takes about an hour to finish.

Isn't the internet amazing? A cook in Saint Plotniko in 2007 wants to make rice so he googles a recipe from Brooklyn put up in 2005. Last week he tried an eggplant recipe from Istanbul posted in 2002. The world is getting not only smaller but tastier.