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Archive Home > 2010 > February > 28 > Mable Hoffman, slow-cooker pioneer and author, dies at 88

Mable Hoffman, slow-cooker pioneer and author, dies at 88

By Valerie J. Nelson / The Bulletin
February 28, 2010

Food stylist and home economist Mable Hoffman had been married a good 30 years when a wedding gift caused her career to take an aromatic detour.

The recipients of that early 1970s present—a Crock-Pot—were newlyweds unsure of what to do with the newly invented electric slow-cooker. But the....

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