Rice – Around the world in 300 recipes

Jean Michel Jakobowicz, UNOG – Photos Pierre Virot

At last, it will arrive for the winter holidays. Some had their doubts about the rice cookbook. About your rice cookbook. About the book that international civil servants from around the world helped us to create.

We received hundreds and hundreds of recipes, which explains the delay. But we have finally succeeded, and the book will be available in English at the end of November and in French a few days later.

Mrs. Nane Annan was kind enough to write the preface, along with the President of the International Year of Rice, Mr. Mahmoud Solh.

As for all the people that enabled this book to see the light of day, the list is truly long. I would like all the same to recognize first those who followed me in this undertaking the “rice team”: Emmanuelle Gantet, Evelina Rioukhina and Sergio da Silva. They contributed work that was considerable and often ingrate. A thank you to Alison Mangin for having re-read and edited the recipes in English, and to Martine Robiony and Emmanuelle Gantet for having translated and edited the French.

Numerous were those who contributed photographs, but an especially big thank you goes to Pierre Virot and Jose Ibara, as well as to Evelina Rioukhina and Sergio da Silva for their photos. A thank you as well as to the International Rice Research Institute in Manilla and to the image bank at the FAO.

A big thank you to the section of the PAO and in particu-ar to Sylvie Sahuc, who did a wonderful job putting the book together, and thank you also to the other members of the reproduction staff.

And thank you at last to all the nameless and named that I have forgotten and without whom this book would not have been possible.

The Sales section of the United Nations will market this book, but part of the profits will be donated to a UNICEF nutrition project.

We hope that this book will please you and that many of you will want to give it as a holiday gift.

The book will be available at the United Nations kiosk at Door 40.