The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook: 250 No-Fail Recipes for Pilafs, Risottos, Polenta, Chilis, Soups, Porridges, Puddings, and More, from Start to Finish in Your Rice Cooker

"If the rice cooker is buried in a cupboard, this book can restore and enhance its usefulness. Cooks who already swear by the perfect-every-time rice made in this electric pot can move to the next level of cooking." PRAISE for THE ULTIMATE RICE COOKER COOKBOOK xa0 “A rice cooker is a must in all Asian kitchens and should be in every kitchen, and so should this cookbook! My friends Beth and Julie show you how to cook hundreds of different dishes with one simple kitchen appliance. Plus they will teach you all there is to know about rice—the main staple for more than half the world’s population.” – Martin Yan, host of "Yan Can Cook" and author of Martin Yan’s Invitation to Chinese Cooking and Martin Yan’s Feast “If using a rice cooker enables you to enjoy more home cooking, then consider the definitive The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook . Authors Beth Hensperger and Julie Kaufmann use this handy pot for more than just steaming rice. Their recipes are truly innovative.” – Rebecca Wood, author of The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia and the Julia Child Cookbook Award-winner and James Beard Book Award-winner The Splendid Grain “It’s great to see a book dedicated to an appliance that is integral to creating the core of so many dishes, regardless of the origin of the dish.” – Ming Tsai, host of "East Meets West" and co-author of Blue Ginger: East Meets West Cooking with Ming Tsai Beth Hensperger , a New Jersey native who has lived in California since her teens, has been educating, writing, and demo-lecturing about the art of baking for over 30 years. In the last few years, she has shifted focus to countertop appliance–driven cookbooks that embrace adapting traditional and professional recipes for the home cook: the bread machine, the rice cooker, the microwave, and a four-volume compilation specifically for use with the electric slow cooker, stressing personal creativity in preparation and selection of ingredients. Hensperger is the author of over 22 cookbooks, including the best-selling Not Your Mother’s series, which includes: Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Recipes for Two, Not Your Mother’s Microwave Cookbook , Not Your Mother’s Fondue , Not Your Mother’s Casseroles Revised and Expanded Edition , and Not Your Mother’s Make-Ahead and Freeze Cookbook Revised and Expanded Edition , along with the blockbuster first volume, Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Cookbook . Her other books include highly-acclaimed titles such as The Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook and The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook . She is also the author of The Bread Bible (Chronicle Books), winner of a James Beard Award in 2000. She has twice been nominated for the Julia Child/IACP Cookbook Award. Hensperger wrote a San Jose Mercury News food column for twelve years, Baking with the Seasons. She is a contributor to dozens of national and online cooking and lifestyle magazines, such as Food & Wine , Every Day with Rachael Ray magazine, Veggie Life , Cooking Light , Working Woman , Victoria , Prevention , and Family Circle , and is a sought-after newspaper and radio interviewee speaking on slow cooking, bread baking, and entertaining. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area. Visit her website at bethhensperger.com and blog at notyourmotherscookbook.com. Read more