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Make the bread, buy the butterMake the bread, buy the butter

Make the bread, buy the butter

Jennifer Reese

3.8(13)on Hardcover

About this book

"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"--

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OL Work ID
OL15932826W

Subjects

ProcessingNatural foodsAgricultural processingCOOKING / ReferenceCOOKING / Methods / GeneralCOOKING / GeneralProcessed foodsCostsCookingFood

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