50 years ago, Kansas City introduced the Crock-Pot. These women taught America to use it
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No Midwestern cookout is complete without a delicious chili or dip simmering in a Crock-Pot. But when the device was first unveiled by a Kansas City company in 1971, it promised something more: freedom.
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