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Pressure cookers are connected to our attitudes toward time and our desire to be able to prepare some foods more quickly as compared with when using other means of cooking. The Instapot Electronic Pressure Cooker and other electronic pressure cookers are a new development in the design of pressure cookers, and are meant to help people deal with the stresses of time and preparing meals, since they free cooks from having to be in attendance when these pressure cookers are used. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the notion that food is seen as fuel in America rather than something to be enjoyed and a source of great pleasure.
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Berger, A.A. (2018). Electronic Pressure Cookers. In: Perspectives on Everyday Life. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99795-7_18
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