
While I'm not much of a cook, I do know how to read recipes, measure ingredients, and stir. Which is pretty much all you have to do with a rice cooker. After posting an seed recently about rice cookers. I got the bug and decided to check them out.
The Steamy Way to Dinner (Rice Cooker)Source: The New York Times
Although rice cookers are gaining in popularity in the United States, with a respectable 3 million sold last year, they are still not standard equipment.

UPON arriving in Zhuhai, near Macao and Hong Kong, after three years in Southwest China, where the only real western restaurant 10 years ago was at the Holiday Inn, I asked, to my future demise, "Is there a McDonald's here?"