So you moved to a new land, got yourself a swanky pad, and are going to get to cooking some delicious grub of the land of the rising sun. You may need to stock your kitchen up on the essential ingredients, but you also need some utensils and kitchen goods! jp.fotolia.com/ Get your Japanese kitchen…

A bread-maker makes bread, and ice-cream machine makes ice-cream, but a rice cooker… now tat is no one-trick-pony. When I bought my first rice cooker, I was concerned that I was using up a considerable chunk of my kitchen space on a contraption that basically only boils a bit of rice. But after several years…

As Japan prides itself for producing rice of the highest quality all over the world, it is no surprise that the country also produces top of the line rice cooking appliances. Japan also ranks number 50 in terms of rice consumption worldwide and the demand for steamy, hot fluffy rice has been the norm since…