The Miracle of How I Was Able To Eat Rice Again After Being Resigned To Subsist on Quinoa, Farro and Glass Noodles With My Chinese Food
In talking with many of my Asian-American friends and family in my age group, I have found that a significant portion of them are diabetic or pre-diabetic and have to alter their diets accordingly. And for people who live most of their lives eating meals centered around rice, and to a lesser extent, noodles, this is a very painful experience, since Chinese cuisine really isn't Chinese food without these carb loaded foods. Indeed it is widely known that instead of greeting someone with the words "How are you?" Cantonese say "Sihk faan mei?" which literally is "Have you eaten?" Perhaps not as well known is that the word "faan" means rice. But on the glycemic index, where a rating of 100 means ingesting a particular food is equivalent to eating pure sugar, with some white rice varieities having a glycemic index approaching 90, eating rice is an unaffordable luxury for many of us. Thus, over a decade ago I was exiled into a...