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Here are three Internet sites that offer solid information about slow cookers, starting with the site for the original slow cooker, Rival’s CrockPot.

* www.crockpot.com – What we know as the slow cooker began life as the ‘’Beanery,’’ an electric appliance developed by Naxon Utilities Corp. Rival bought the rights in 1970 and renamed it the Crock-Pot. Read about the history of slow cookers, browse the Rival store for nifty items such as soft-sided zippered Crock-Pot carriers, and access dozens of recipes at Rival’s corporate site.

* www.epinions.com/crock_pots_and_slow_cookers/_redir__att~1 – Dipping your ladle into the slow cooker market for the first time? Or even second or third time? You need help. Dozens of brands and even more models crowd store shelves. At Epinions, you’ll find consumer reviews of almost all of them.

* www.parenting.ivillage.com/mom/kitchen/0,,9k8k,00.html — The author’s top five slow-cooker tips, and links to her three favorite slow-cooker recipes, including one for the famous French bean dish, cassoulet.

A Thousand Splendid Suns/
Kite Runner

Double book exploration

Book Exploration
By Chuck Bowen

In his first novel The Kite Runner, and now A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini writes about the Afghans caught in the middle of a seemingly endless string of wars and battles for power. Both novels paint a grim and moving picture of life in a war-torn country, and of lives lived in the face of hunger, death and a bleak future. Hosseini makes you realize that, even while bombs rain down and people are dying of hunger, people still fall in love, seek friends and, mostly, try to remain human.