Word: rice
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Stanford Students "Have Rice at Dinner...
...clever headline by The Stanford Daily News. Kind of. When former Stanford Provost Condoleezza Rice dined with students at Stanford, they said they had a positive experience speaking with her--though several students also protested outside on the lawn, arguing that she should be prosecuted for "war crimes" such as "authorizing torture and waging aggressive war in Iraq...
...tough living on a rice diet. But for Zojirushi, a Japanese kitchen-gadget maker, grains have been golden. The company specializes in rice cookers that fetch as much as $1,000. Its high-end devices, which look more like computers than pots, have enticed the class of techie epicures who like $10,000 stoves and fridges. With a series of innovations - from induction-heating advances to sleek, vacuum-sealed containers designed to serve rice at its most succulent, Zojirushi has cooked up a following that yields $600 million in annual sales...
...spending, competitors' cheaper models are making inroads against Zojirushi's luxury offerings. So Zojirushi has rolled out a wider range of tricked-out kitchen tools - from oddly small bread machines to too-smart toasters and wired teapots - that have allowed the company to expand sales overseas and well beyond rice. (See pictures of what the world eats...
Even as it contemplates new products, like grills, for the American market, the company still devotes much of its engineering brainpower to perfecting the rice-cooking process. With that in mind, Zojirushi has a shiny new ricemaker designed by famed Japanese designer Toshiyuki Kita. The secret ingredient? It cooks not just rice but also risotto. Hello, Italy...