Stephanie O'Dea

Stephanie O’Dea is the author of Make it Fast, Cook it Slow: The Big Book of Everday Slow Cooking (Hyperion, Oct. 2009) and Totally Together: Simplify Your Busy Household, Day by Day (Running Press, 2010).

In December 2007, Stephanie made a New Year’s Resolution: she’d use her slow cooker every day in 2008 and document her results on a personal blog: crockpot365.blogspot.com. The result: more than 3.5 million visitors (with 25,000 devoted subscribers), appearances on The Rachael Ray Show and Good Morning America and a collection of over-300 lip-smacking recipes for everything from Breakfast Risotto to Vietnamese Roast Chicken to Falafel (imagine!) to Chocolate Mousse.

A self-described cheapskate, O’Dea began slow cooking as a way to save time and money.