It’s a pretty good food to make and eat. It goes with almost everything. I love to get Koda Farms’ heirloom Kokuho Rose white rice, grown in California for many Koda family generations (who incidentally have a family connection I think to one of my favorite poets and thinkers, Gary Snyder). It’s hard to get their stuff sometimes. I cook it in a donabe. When I don’t have cooked rice on hand life feels incomplete and I feel dangerously close to sorrow and starvation.