Crockery Cookery: 262 Tested Slow-cooker RecipesMable Hoffman (1922 2010) was a food stylist and home economist. In the early 1970s, she received a gift of the newly invented electric slow cooker. Unsure of what to do with it, she decided to write a cookbook. Hoffmans test kitchen amounted to 20 slow cookers lined up in her Solana Beach home. The resulting "Crockery Cookery" (1975) was an instant bestseller. It was "the right book" at "the right moment," the New York Times declared in 1976, adding