— Sue Michaels

I lived in Brazil for two years when I was a Peace Corps volunteer, and that's where I really learned to cook rice, even though it was never brown. And the person who was the, um, the cook where we lived had a big bowl, and she would fill it with rice and with her fingers, she would create an eddie. She would fill the bowl with water, cold water, and then create it nanny and wash and wash and wash it. She would wa do that. She would pour it out, add more water, pour it out, add more water until the water was crystal clear. So washing rice is very important. You also, if you wanted to add one more thing to your kitchen cabinets, you could get yourself a rice strainer, which helps to, uh, remove some of the residual that might, or the residue rather, that might be on your rice. So you have your rice, it's come from a good source. I do recommend, uh, a beautiful, wonderful family owned arm just about an hour outside of Philadelphia called Blue Moon Acres. And they are the only certified organic rice farm in the state of New Jersey, which for New Jersey is a big deal. When you think about the climate on the East Coast and so forth, the rice is absolutely delicious. It's $12 a pound. I think that's too expensive. When I do buy it, what do I do? I cut it with a cup of this and I expand, extend the mixture, but I still have a better rice. And then I will wash it off. The method that I learned many years ago when I lived in Brazil, when you do this, there are many different numbers. You can reduce the arsenic content anywhere between 48 to 80%. So I say find a way that works for you, but do make it in bulk. If you have a good rice cooker or you can even make rice in a slow cooker, make it in a big bundle, a big batch, and then individually package it and put it in your freezer, date it, et cetera. Because going through all of that to create a beautiful rice might be too time consuming for your busy schedule.

Excellent resource for organic rice + info about arsenic.