Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!postnews2.google.com!not-for-mail From: worthj1970@yahoo.com (John W.) Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Initial impressions from the Japanese premier of Fahrenheit 9/11 Date: 23 Aug 2004 10:21:05 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 26 Message-ID: <73fde4f0.0408230921.2eac7efc@posting.google.com> References: <2okumiFbdbunU23@uni-berlin.de> <2ora5oFduf57U1@uni-berlin.de> <73fde4f0.0408221021.65f5850b@posting.google.com> <4129D674.2020807@hotmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.32.36.230 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1093281666 17387 127.0.0.1 (23 Aug 2004 17:21:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:21:06 +0000 (UTC) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:17212 Declan Murphy wrote in message news:<4129D674.2020807@hotmail.com>... > John W. wrote: > > "Ryan Ginstrom" wrote in message news:<2ora5oFduf57U1@uni-berlin.de>... > > > >>"tm" wrote in message > >>news:tm-2C3ED0.11594622082004@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp... > >> > >>>I've noticed a similar problem in my own kitchen. Tried pouring cake > >>>batter in the fish griller but that didn't work out any better than > >>>the holiday turkey. > >> > >>Try the rice cooker. > > > > There was a product years ago for baking cakes in the rice cooker. It > > was supposed to taste really good, but the marketing folks that came > > up with the original idea didn't realize the importance of the rice > > cooker in Japanese homes (almost always has rice in it, used every day > > for cooking rice, etc.) and the product flopped; that was in the 70s, > > I think. > > I have a vague recollection of reading about that. Think it was in one > of George Field's books. From Bonsai to Levis. Good book. John W.