Rice, Beans, and Beyond

Rice and beans may not be the glamour dishes of a barbecue, but no self-respecting cookout is complete without them. This chapter focuses on those stalwart dishes that add heft to your plate and help to round out what could otherwise be a relentlessly carnivorian meal.

Rice is the traditional accompaniment to much of the world’s grilled fare, from the sticky short-grain rices popular in Asia to the fluffy long-grain rices featured in the West.