Excellent food writing, on the history of the crockpot: "The Crockpot arrived amid a slew of innovations, from the microwave oven to the breadmaker, that promised to save women from the drudgery of cooking for their families. But unlike its technological contemporaries, the slow cooker didn’t speed up a working woman’s cooking, it slowed it down... What the modern Crockpot brought to the kitchen — or more accurately to the woman in the kitchen — was inattention."
Life in the Slow Lane - Longreads
Olivia Potts | Longreads | November 2022 | 16 minutes (4,649 words) It’s six in the morning, and Robert Booth has already been on the road for three hours. Sitting alongside him in the cab of his lorry (the British term for a truck) is Louis,Robert’s small dog, a Jack Russell-chihuahua mix,and a washing-up bowl […]
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