Bash Ful

We’ve seen this tasty parboiled Bangladeshi rice for sale only at Kalustyan’s in New York (see Mail-Order Sources). It is an overall beige-cream in color and looks like a blend of rices, with some grains having small flecks of red bran on them and others translucent with an opaque white strip (probably from incomplete parboiling). The rice is short- to medium-grain (the grains are not very long and are quite wide in proportion to their length). As it cooks, in