Unless you’re planning to go pro, you don’t have to carefully select the rice, soak, and then grind it. Simply head to an Asian market and look in the flour-and-starch aisle for plastic bags ...

I used to store my flour packages and rice bags by rolling down the top and “sealing” them with a binder clip. One day, I set ...

There’s a bag of arborio for an occasional herby risotto ... In the freezer now, there’s a tub of dosa batter, made of rice flour and lentils, from my local Indian grocer.