Slow Cooking: Not So Fast Food (ISBN 1552854981)

A surprising find:
I found two copies of this book at a local bookstore and kept one for myself and gave the other way for a gift. The book is full of soups, stews, and other comfort-type food. Also, there is some fancier stuff that has turned out pretty good when I tried. Some of the recipes do take a long time, both in preparation and in cooking, but once you get them going it gives some time free to do other things. In my case, as a student, I usually did a lot of work while the food was busy making my house smell nice. This book fills a nice niche in my collection for stews and other type food, mostly things I like to cook on cold days after a day of work. The other review here doesn't do it justice.

http://www.food.org.au/book-review-slow-cooking-by-joanne-glynn/:
...When this book first appeared in our household, sitting suggestively on the kitchen bench, I was appalled. "Why?" I exclaimed loudly to anyone that would listen, "Why would anyone actually set out to cook slowly?!" In my experience even the meals that advertisers purport to be speedy in preparation and cooking time inevitably reveal themselves as significantly more effort, especially to the inexperienced. By my calculations, if we use this ratio and apply it to a meal that is self acclaimed as `slow' then it would surely be an eternity before it is ready to eat. When I enquired as to how such a ridiculous book had ended up sitting so innocently on the bench I was informed that one of our neighbours had somehow winded up with a surplus copy and decided to donate it to us. (Needless to say, I was a little suspicious. Was she suggesting something about the quality of our meals or did she just have an awful lot of time on her hands?) After a time I realized that all of these automatic negative reactions on my part were based on a lack of understanding, so I delved into the book to find out more. The book begins with an introduction to the pleasures of cooking, ranked as important as those of eating. Perhaps this is something we tend to forget when the mind is constantly racing forward and doesn't rest to consider the intricacy and ritual of preparation. Joanne begins with a flourish, "- transform the usually tedious process of preparation into a soothing, satisfying ritual, one that leads you more deeply into the luxurious rhythms of slow cooking."... For more check out: http://www.food.org.au/book-review-slow-cooking-by-joanne-glynn/

Cooking at its finest:
This is cooking like it should be. This is for the cook who loves the taste given to food by wonderful spices and slow cooking. But NOT a slow cooker. This is food that you take all day to cook and then love the result.