Let the slow cooker do the work, so you don’t have to! Serve up easy-to-make, family-style dishes from french toast to shrimp scampi to chocolate fondue.

The slow cooker is now middle aged! Invented in 1950, the slow cooker was popular in the early 1970s. The miracle appliance was the perfect complement to the busy modern lifestyle, but considered a backwater to the world of fine food. That all changes now!

Veteran bestselling cookbook author Dominique DeVito introduces a whole new take on great slow foods! DeVito catalogs recipes covering breakfast, snacks, and dinner, and appeals to all sorts of ethnic traditions. She features fresh farm-to-table ingredients, and highlights ribs, roasts, chicken, pork, and beef, whiles also offering a wide range of international flavors, including French, Italian, Caribbean, Mexican, and other ethnic dishes, as well as new healthy takes on such staples as four-cheese mac and cheese, six bean chili, old-fashioned Boston baked beans, classic stews and amazing spicy jerk dishes. Detailed instructions smooth the way for cooks new to this time-tested cookware.