Bread machines- France:instant! Japan:Rice
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Couldn't resist sharing a link to David Lebovitz's post:
http://www.davidlebovitz.com/2011/02/the-french-bread-machine/
and how about Sanyo's GoPan! This rice bread machine was released in November and has been a hit in Japan with sales beyond their projections. In Japanese cooked rice is called 'gohan' and bread is called 'pan' so they've come up with a cute name for the machine combining the kanji for rice and kana for bread and assigning the pronunciation GoPan (米ぱん)