Search Results for: label/book reviews/2011/04/making-it

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Steal this Book!

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Thoughtstylings
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...get you homesteading immediately wherever you may live. It is also a guidebook to the larger movement, pointing you to the best books and internet resources on self-sufficiency and sustainability. Learn how to: • Grow food on a patio or balcony • Preserve or ferment food and make yogurt and cheese • Compost with worms • Keep city chickens • Divert your grey water to your garden • Clean your house without toxins • Guerilla garden in public spaces...

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What You Need to Bake Bread

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Bread, Food
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...resources and tools: Bake With Baker Again, get yourself a copy of Baker’s book. It’s a class in baking organized into recipes in ascending order of difficulty. Work your way thought the book and by the end you’ll be a baking god and the life of every party. Baker is a fan of whole grains and sourdough and if that isn’t enough he has the only decent gluten free bread recipe I’ve ever tasted. At the end of the book you’ll find cookie and scone reci...

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The Jerusalem Cookbook

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Food, Reviews
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...a wonderful dinner party last week and cooked all of the courses from this book. Now, Kazi is an expert cook, so I’m sure she doesn’t really need a book to put on an good spread, but she assured us that she was experimenting on us: she’d never tried any of the recipes before, and was cooking them straight out of the book as written. The meal was astounding. Of course, her beautiful presentation and the excellent company had much to do with it, but...

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DIY Christmas Trees

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Design
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...our book shelf until next season: Now, I know some people get cranky about book desecration, but even as a book lover and author, I don’t feel this has to be a bad thing. If you’ve ever perused the book section of a Goodwill, you know that there are books out there which could do with re-purposing. My picks for the chopping block are celebrity bios and inexplicable runaway best-sellers like the Da Vinci Code and 50 Shades of Grey. These publishing...

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