Harvard Common Press

Library Bookwatch, March, 2005

Harvard Common Press

535 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118

www.harvardcommonpress.com

If you typically associate slow cooker cookbooks with stews and pot roasts and little else, it's time to take another look at the 350 recipes packed into Beth Hensperger and Julie Kaufmann's Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook (1558322-450, $16.95), a treasure trove exploring all the potential available in a slow cooker pot. From choosing fresh ingredients over packaged to using the cooker for breakfast, lunch and dinner alike, Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook features hundreds of dishes from corned beef and cabbage to chilis, soups, and even original inventions not to be found elsewhere. Maybe it's vegetarian main dishes you seek from the slower cooker's repertoire: if so, Robin Robinson's Fresh From The Vegetarian Slow Cooker (1558322566, $14.95) is the choice for you. From bean dishes to vegetarian chilis, vindaloo and more, even to miso dishes and 'pot roast', the hearty dishes in Vegetarian Slow Cooker emphasize main courses. Author James Villas' Biscuit Bliss (155832223X, $14.95) shares the best of his personal recipe favorites and investigations of biscuit recipes across the country. Biscuit fans will relish a collection of many regional recipes hard to find elsewhere, from Spiced Pumpkin to Olive-Pimiento and many more.