Make the Bread, Buy the Butter

What You Should Cook from Scratch to Save Time and Money

by Jennifer Reese

Paperback, 304 pages

Published Oct. 16, 2012 by Atria Books.

ISBN:: 978-1-4516-0588-4

(1 review)

"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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4 stars

I actually bought the book after reading just 30 pages, because it is so entertaining (and because I adore the writer's habit of humorously undermining the fiction that people legitimately undertake project cooking to save big money, or the world, rather than because they find it satisfying). She is damn funny, and the recipes look very good too. I'm going to try making camembert.