This Free Cookbook Makes It Possible to Eat on $4 a Day

no-more-ramen:

“Leanne Brown started the Good and Cheap cookbook as her thesis project for a graduate degree in food studies at New York University.

The premise is simple: cooking nutritious meals on the tight budget of $4 a day, which is roughly how much the people in SNAP, the federal government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, get allocated each day in food stamps. The result is a beautiful cookbook chock-full of recipes that you can download for free online.”

https://www.leannebrown.com/cookbooks/

A Spanish-language version is also available.

mishafletcher:

so a little while back, i wrote a cookbook, and the post’s being passed around tumblr a whole lot lately. (thanks for that, by the way! i’ve made like a hundred dollars this week and my cat’s very excited about the fancy pumpkin-and-nastiness catfood that she’s going to get in celebration.)

when i released the book, i was like, oh, i oughta do something for promo! which i promptly did not do, at all. but i’m doing it now! free cookbooks for all! well, for some. five. five, to be exact, free cookbooks for five.

anyhow, this is the book i wrote:

Cooking is terrible, and food is often a massive pain in the ass. Eating is sometimes ok, sometimes a giant drag, and somehow still a thing that you have to do multiple times a day, which seems enormously unfair.

This book isn’t going to teach you how to cook, or turn you into the kind of person who hosts effortless dinner parties, or make you more attractive and popular and interesting. At best, it’s going to make it slightly more likely that you manage to eat something in the ten minutes between walking in the door and falling into the sweet embrace of the internet. I’m not joking—a lot of this can be done, start to finish, in ten to fifteen minutes. I resent thirty-minute meals because it feels like about twenty-eight minutes too long to spend on feeding myself.

If you’re excited to get home from work and spend an hour cooking dinner, this isn’t the book for you. If you really value authenticity, this isn’t the book for you. If you literally only eat three foods and you’re happy like that, this isn’t the book for you. If you, like me, are tired and depressed and just need to get some food into your face once in a while, this is definitely the book for you. You should buy it. Maybe it’ll help.

you can buy it on amazon or gumroad, or you can win a copy (in pdf, epub, or mobi format) by reblogging this post.

other important stuff:

winners will be chosen by a random generator

please don’t spam people–reblog no more than twice

no giveaway blogs

you do not have to follow me

there are reviews on amazon; my cooking is terrible tag has questions people have asked me

contest closes friday, august 17, 2018, at 11:59 pm pacific time

winners have to give me their email address so i can send them the book

please maybe have a snack and be nice to yourself. you don’t have to do this to win, i just think that it’d be good.

moosefrog:

copperbadge:

blyddyn:

alkylhalide:

Dripping Thighs, Sticky Chicken Fingers, Vanilla Chicken, Chicken with a Lardon, Bacon-Bound Wings, Spatchcock Chicken, Learning-to-Truss-You Chicken, Holy Hell Wings, Mustard-Spanked Chicken, and more, more, more!

Fifty chicken recipes, each more seductive than the last, in a book that makes every dinner a turn-on.

“I want you to see this. Then you’ll know everything. It’s a cookbook,” he says and opens to some recipes, with color photos. “I want to prepare you, very much.” This isn’t just about getting me hot till my juices run clear, and then a little rest. There’s pulling, jerking, stuffing, trussing. Fifty preparations. He promises we’ll start out slow, with wine and a good oiling … Holy crap. “I will control everything that happens here,” he says. “You can leave anytime, but as long as you stay, you’re my ingredient.” I’ll be transformed from a raw, organic bird into something—what? Something delicious.

@copperbadge – you seen this?

I’m just very confused by all of it.

There is not one Fifty Shades of Chicken cookbook (amazon.ca/Fifty-Shades-C…) or two (amazon.ca/50-Shades-Chic…) but THREE (amazon.ca/Fifty-Shades-C…) See also 50 Ways to Eat Cock (amazon.ca/50-Ways-Eat-Co…) and 50 Shades of Coq (amazon.ca/50-Shades-Coq-…).

And, speaking of vintage Betty Crocker, this one arrived today!

I’d considered it before, but finally went ahead and tracked down a copy. Off eBay, from a UK seller, for under £20! Much better than when I was looking before. And it looks to be way less battered than my mom’s copy.

Besides the level of odd-sounding stuff you might expect from a 1961 Betty Crocker cookbook, it does have some pretty good cakes, etc. in particular. I may have to try a GF conversion of the Black Midnight Cake, though I’m not sure I want to mess with the cooked White Mountain icing we always had on it. (Apparently a popular enough recipe that it’s on their site now.)

But, the main reason I decided to get hold of a copy was the nostalgia value. My mom could have written this review (in part):

The Betty Crocker’s Picture Cook Book is absolutely the best all-around cookbook in the kitchen. I learned to cook from this cookbook over 40 years ago and have continued to use this cookbook as it offers good basic recipes.

That was one of the first cookbooks someone gave her when she left home in like 1968, and she was still referring back to it some 40 years later. Neither she nor my uncle entered adulthood knowing how to do much more than boil water, because they were barely allowed in the kitchen at all with my Mamaw’s OCD. Not sure how he learned to feed himself, but she gave this cookbook a lot of credit.

I’ve barely even opened this “new” copy yet, but I was pretty glad to find one at a reasonable price.

Eastern Star Cookbook Dorothy Nickels : Order of the Eastern Star, Chapter 69 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

Publication date 1951

Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0

Topics Cookbook, Eastern Star, Hot Springs, Arkansas

Collection opensource

Language English

Cookbook published as a fund raiser for the Hot Springs, Arkansas Chapter 69 of the Order of the Eastern Star.

This is an older (and much shorter) cookbook than the one I was thinking of. But, it does have some interesting period items, just from a a little skimming.

Eastern Star Cookbook Dorothy Nickels : Order of the Eastern Star, Chapter 69 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive