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Dissent: Keep A Lid on the Pot...
Product: The Crock-Pot How It Started: Introduced in the 1970s, now in the midst of a revival Judgment: A healthy alternative to microwave ovens...
...word crock-pot may conjure bad memories of mystery stews, but slow cookers are back. Embraced by busy people and sophisticated chefs, slow cooking has grown about 6% in each of the past five years. The Fix-It and Forget It Cookbook, a tome of slow-cooker recipes, has been on best-seller lists for six months. And sales of conical, clay Moroccan pots called tagines, left, are up. Behind the Crock-Pot's popularity: groovy new models (Michael Graves designed one for Black & Decker) and the fact that slow cooking requires less fat. "I can put the ingredients...
Since Sept. 11, personal chefs have been inundated with requests for simple comfort foods like chicken pot pie and noodle soup. "People are still reluctant to go out to eat," says Candy Wallace, who heads the American Personal Chef Association. "They'd rather be home." Michael Zytowski, 33, a Long Beach, Calif., chef, agrees that current appetites run more toward pot roast than foie gras. "I haven't run into a client yet who wants Chateaubriand or lobster," he says...
Moynihan also authored Beyond the Melting Pot, a noted study of American ethnicity, with Nathan Glazer...