Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook

Amazingly, 80 percent of American households own a slow cooker. For more than 30 years, its unbeatable convenience and practicality has made it a staple of families, enabling anyone to return to a home-cooked meal at the end of a hectic day. Many slow cooker recipes, however, have relied on less-than-healthy convenience products. Now, Beth Hensperger and Julie Kaufman's Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker takes a completely fresh look at cooking with this popular appliance. This comprehensive collection of 350 recipes combines the ease of slow cooking with the fresh, wholesome ingredients and exciting flavors of today's kitchens. Beth Hensperger is the author of 14 previous cookbooks, including he James Beard Award Winner The Bread Bible. She currently writes for the San Jose Mercury News. Julie Kaufman is the deputy editor of the San Jose Mercury News and is co-author, with Beth Hensperger, of The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbooks.