Now you might be thinking, "Why the hell would I need to know how to make sticky rice?" For one, because we're learning from Andy Ricker, who Anthony Bourdain dubbed, "the white guy who cooks awesome Thai food." Bourdain, along with a legion of others, have since converted to the Tao of Ricker, following the Durian-tatted chef from Portland to Brooklyn's Columbia Waterfront, all in search of arguably the most exciting Northern Thai food stateside.
And, if you know anything about the guy, you know he's most inspired by Chiang Mai Province, a.k.a. rice country. "To eat a meal without rice would be unthinkable," says Ricker, who recently got into a, er, sticky situation by calling out that there should be no such thing as free rice. To find out why, watch the video above.