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Book

Make the bread, buy the butter : what you should and shouldn't cook from scratch--over 120 recipes for the best homemade foods

Call Number

  • 641.5 R329 (CEN, WSQ)

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Edition

1st Free Press hardcover ed.

Publication Information

New York : Free Press, 2011.

Physical Description

viii, 295 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Summary

"A lively, frugal-chic answer to the question "Make or Buy" about 120 different food staples"--

"Does becoming part of the home cooking movement mean cooking everything from scratch? According to Jennifer Reese, known as The Tipsy Baker to her online foodie following, there are plenty of products that you should buy at the store. Make your own bread, for instance, but buy the butter--making butter takes too long and doesn't taste better. Jennifer Reese's popular cost-benefit experiments became the most emailed story on Slate for a week, and this book brings her conscientious, frugal-chic approach to 120 food staples in a narrative with recipes that explores the homemade life"--

Notes

Includes index.

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