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Roger Ebert’s blog is consistently so smart, comfortable, and well-written — not only about movies, though about books, governing body, autobiography (auto & unchanging, as well as some-more — which it didn’t warn me in a smallest when he started essay about how most he desired his rice cooker. His rice cooker posts were further so funny, smart, as well as ardent which it doesn’t surprise me that Ebert’s written a cookbook, patrician The Pot as well as How to Use It: The Mystery and Romance of a Rice Cooker. (You can preorder it now; it should be in stores after this month.)

Ebert’s 2008 post sporting a same pretension lays out a book’s program:

First, get the Pot. You need a simplest rice cooker done. It comes with dual speeds: Cook, as well as Warm. Not expensive. Now you’re all set to cook dishes for the rest of your holdup upon dual square feet of opposite space, and the chopping retard. No, I am not putting you upon a Rice Diet. Eat what you similar to. I am thinking of you, tyro in your dorm room. You, solitary writer, artist, musician, potter, plumber, builder, hermit. You, relatives with kids. You, night look-out. You, spooky mechanism programmer or sap web-worker. You, lovers who similar to to prepare together though don’t wish to put anything in a oven. You, in a declare protection module. You, nutritional wingnut. You, in a wheelchair.

Rice cookers unequivocally have been inventive, versatile small inclination. They move glass to the boil, prepare whatever’s inside, afterwards shut themselves off. Add a microwave, crock pot, as well as toaster oven, as well as you can cook roughly anything but cleaning a pan, reaching for an egg timer, or worrying about withdrawal something upon as well prolonged ever again.

The Secrets of a Pot [Roger Ebert's Journal/Chicago Sun-Times] and Roger Ebert: No Longer an Eater, Still the Cook [New York Times]