Roger Ebert, Passionate Cook - NYTimes.com The Times's Kim Severson interviewed Roger Ebert, the film critic for The Chicago Sun-Times, in 2010, four years after surgeries for cancer took away his ability to eat and talk. When she spoke with Mr. Ebert, who died on Thursday at 70, he was publishing a cookbook called "The Pot and How to Use It: The Mystery and Romance of the Rice Cooker." "Food for me is in the present tense," he told her. Eating for me is now only in the past tense. Read the full article here