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Top chef Brody turns her skills to the slow cooker. She proves how versatile and indispensable this appliance is, offering new ways to braise, stew, caramelize vegetables, and bake crusty bread. These contemporary recipes include instructions for converting stove top recipes, and tips for using it as a microwave alternative.

Publisher's Remarks:
When someone says "slow cooker," do you think of pot roast or chili? Now you can think Slow Cooked Salmon, Caramelized Onion Soup, falling-off-the-bone Lamb You Can Eat with a Spoon, and Flourless Pear Anise Souffle. If these dishes whet your appetite, it's time to take that slow cooker out of the closet, plug it in, and get ready for "Slow Cooker Cooking."

Lora Brody knows her appliances. She inspired a whole new generation of bread bakers with her best-selling bread machine books. Here she pushes the slow cooker to places no one ever expected it to go, inventing fruit bases for souffles and ice creams, reducing milk and su