Roger Ebert is a determined person. The former movie critic, rendered unable to speak following a 2006 surgery to remove a portion of his jaw in his continuing fight with thyroid cancer, sees cooking as a form of exercise and relief from the daily pains of his ongoing cancer battle.Back in 2008 Roger Ebert wrote about a rice cooker for one of his Chicago Sun-Times column. Today, that old topic has re-emerged as his book 'The Pot and How to Use It' is set to hit shelves later this month. Discussing his love for food and cooking, Roger Ebert says: "To be sure, health problems have prevented me from eating," Ebert writes in the book. "That did not discourage my cooking. It became an exercise more pure, freed of biological compulsion."Roger Ebert received the rice cooker as a wedding present in 1992 - and out of love for his wife Chaz, he adores the rice cooker similarly."We used to take the rice cooker almost everywhere we went," Chaz Ebert said, even to the famous Sundance Film Festival. "[Cooking] is something that he has always loved, so it's not for him that if 'I can't taste it and eat it and swallow it then I'm not interested.' For Roger, it's very much his family, his friends and the people around him. He's there's for it. He loves it."
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