Back in the seventies, long before the reign of the InstaPot, there was CROCKERY COOKERY! That's right, before Americans became obsessive about cooking things fast in microwave ovens, they were obsessed with cooking things slow in crock pots, and Crockery Cookery was their slow-cooking bible! The first third of Crockery Cookery, nearly a hundred pages, is dedicated to how crock pots work, along with specifications for over thirty different brands of electric slow-cook crockery options on the market at the time. But after that, it's nothing but net with 262 recipes for everything from lumps of meat, to liquids containing lumps of meat, to... you get the idea. If you're in the mood to spend 14 hours cooking a pot roast, and only have access to a Dominion Crock-A-Dial Model II, then this is the cook book for you! ( )