Bel Aria Arborio Italian Rice

Arborio rice is the traditional rice used for risotto dishes, cold rice salads, puddings or whatever top quality rice is called for. Arborio rice is superior to ordinary rice because of its very nature: cultivated in the low lying Po River Valley in Lombardy, Italy, the river's frequent overflowing creates ideal rice paddies that produce a hefty grain that abounds in amylopectin, the starch that dissolves in cooking that bonds so well with the cooking liquid.