Kat Thompson is the associate editor of Eater at Home, covering home cooking and baking, cookbooks, and kitchen gadgets. Fried rice is one of those dishes that doesn’t really need a recipe.

One member of our group took home a full dinner, and the review the next day was glowing: smoky jerk chicken served on the bone with tender, fluffy saffron rice ($17.99); savory callaloo greens ($ ...

The birth of the first home rice cooker as we know it (automatic, electric). The son of a similarly “liberated” Korean woman, I was raised on rice-cooker rice, the chirping bells and whistles ...