Last week I won a fairly large Amazon gift card, and I may have actually cackled loudly when I got the news. While some people collect shoes, or porn, or vintage vinyl, my passion burns for books. After pouring over my long, long, LONG wishlist, I decided to settle on a good food theme.
I am now the proud owner of (pardon the affiliate links)
- Simply in Season Expanded Edition (World Community Cookbook)
- Saving the Seasons: How to Can, Freeze, or Dry Almost Anything
- Clean Food: A Seasonal Guide to Eating Close to the Source with More Than 200 Recipes for a Healthy and Sustainable You
- Earth to Table: Seasonal Recipes from an Organic Farm
- Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and with (Almost) No Money.
OK, so Possum Living isn’t really a cookbook, but it does have some recipes. Including one for homemade moonshine a “grocery store wine” that involves Welch’s frozen grape juice. I’m … I’m actually pretty tempted to try this concoction myself. After reading several articles about the infamous Dolly Freed, I could not help but grab her book. It’s funny, in that you can feel her cocky 18 year-old attitude oozing off the page. You know you’ve been there, so sure of how it is, how it really is. I got the updated copy because there’s a chapter at the end where she, now an adult, talks about what she had right and what she had wrong. Good stuff.
There’s nothing better on bad days than getting a big box of books. Even if they are cookbooks, they’re still good, The kind with stories and anecdotes mingled in. And Possum, I devoured it in about half an hour snuggled up on the couch. Then spent the next half hour daydreaming about an old farm house with a couple acres and a pond somewhere.
When life hands you lemons, and shitty relationships, it’s good to know that fate will drop a huge box of books on your doorstep.
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Jana
on Sep 10th, 2010
@ 8:03 AM:
I love Simply in Season! Great recipes and stories to go along. There is also a Simply in Season for kids. Enjoy all your new treasures and happy cooking!
Jenna
on Oct 12th, 2010
@ 10:33 AM:
I don’t know how the recipes may differ, but my dad makes wine using grape juice and it is to die for!!! It’s fairly strong, too, so one good run of it will last a while…. unless of course your a wine-o!
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