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Now I know what my next food hobby won’t be

Home Cheese Making by Ricki Carroll

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I like food related hobbies; I’ve tried some candy making, soda making, and those are fun. Cheese making on the other hand sounds like it wouldn’t be worth it for me. I like cheese, but getting all the equipment and ingredients seems like a lot of trouble for a lot of cheese I wouldn’t be able to eat quickly enough and not be able to try new things very often. This is what Home Cheese Making has shown me. I know the process can take […]

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Cooking with Two Fat Ladies by Clarissa Dickson Wright, Jennifer Paterson

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The Two Fat Ladies were something of a staple on BBC food tv, being entertaining comic interludes with a real emphasis on UK regional cookery that’s pretty traditional. However, this is not immediately apparent in the version of the cookbook Cooking with the Two Fat Ladies I found as it’s labeled “as seen on Food Network”. I don’t recall Food Network ever picking up this series, and even if they did, that does a disservice to the content of the show which is unashamedly old-school […]

When is 8 not really 8?

The Vegan 8 by Brandi Doming

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The Vegan 8 claims that it contains “100 simple, delicious recipes made with 8 ingredients or less.” This is not entirely true. The introduction says there are 3 free ingredients: salt, pepper, and water. This is fair, but then if you look at the recipes, there are many which actually either cheat by separating into multiple recipes that combine or try to suggest that things like black pepper corns and ground pepper are the same thing. It may be in the letter or the rule, […]

Are the Good Eats Really Worth Attempting?

Good Eats 4: The Final Years by Alton Brown

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Alton Brown’s last cookbook really is basically his show Good Eats in written form, down to the use of footnotes. Good Eats 4: The Final Years is basically the recipe (both actual how to make and creation history) catalog from Good Eats: Reloaded and Good Eats: The Return (including the “lost” planned but never made season 3 of The Return). For most all recipes there’s a lot of segmented information to work through including the narrative of the episode and some thoughts thereon, the history […]

Sometimes the Basics Have Promise

The No Meat Athlete Cookbook by Matt Frazier, Stepfanie Romine

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Happy end of semester impulse buy to me (university English teacher here). I have to admit I wasn’t expecting much from The No Meat Athlete Cookbook, since my scan in the bookstore revealed a pretty generic set of recipes, but I went ahead and bought it because it included a sweet red bean recipe and I’ve been wanting something like that (could I have gone internet digging, sure, but that’s a bother), as well as some actually palatable looking diy sports drink options. Most of […]

It Costs A Lot to Eat this Sweet

Bakerita by Rachel Connors

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This year for my birthday I decided to bake myself something in part because my freezer is still full from the sourdough baking times of about two months ago and I usually go for a small ice cream cake. I was assisted by a library find I may now have to purchase: Bakerita (of the blog of same name). The general premise is supposed healthier baked treats in that mostly natural less processed ingredients are featured, as are quite a few gluten-free and vegan options. […]



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