The ideal book for time-strapped cooks & busy households Kitchen Classics: Slow Cookers shows you how to transform many foods particularly meat into morsels of melting tenderness with not much more exertion than the flicking of a switch. Slow cookers have been around since the 1960s & have always had their devotees but now more & more cooks are wising up to the time & budget saving capabilities of the slow cooker.""