Orzo and Quinoa

Our series on grains—alternatives to your usual rice reparation—concludes with orzo and quinoa. Orzo Orzo is Italian for barley.  It’s a rice-shaped pasta.  It looks like rice, can be cooked like rice and can be served as rice.  It is available in supermarkets, most often packaged with three colors of orzo—pale red, green and white. …