Derek wrote:

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:55:35 -0700, crymad wrote:

This site has a wealth of info. I spent about an hour flipping back and
forth between different foods, comparing nutritional profiles. For a
real shock, check out the one for romaine lettuce. Shoot, even 1 cup of
baked potato stands about equal to 1 cup of cooked brown rice. And
eating it isn't drudgery.

As for being a drudgery - you must not be fixing it right. I find brown
rice to be a wonderful component as a bed for grilled chicken, as an
ingredient in red beans and rice, or in just about any place one might use
white rice.

Actually, I like brown rice in certain settings. Just not as the anchor
in Asian cuisines. My wife and I had sukiyaki the other night. We each
ate at least three cups of cooked white rice. Plus beef and tofu and
chrysanthemum leaves (shungiku) and napa cabbage and long onions and
fresh shiitake and other assorted bits. Can you manage to get down
three cups of brown rice along with the quantities of all that other
goodness? It's simply too heavy in the stomach. This is what I mean by
drudgery.

--crymad