More-With-Less Cookbook

Posted on 19 August 2018 by Doris Janzen Longacre

When first published in 1976, More with Less Cookbook by Doris Janzen Longacre struck a nerve with its call for every household to help solve the world food crisis Now with than 850,000 copies around the globe, it has become the favorite cookbook of many families Full of recipes from hundreds of contributors, More with Less Cookbook offers suggestions on how to eat better and consume less of the world s limited food resources While not including new recipes, this most recent printing does include a new introduction and updated statistics with food costs and nutritional information for today s generations. Download More-With-Less Cookbook By Doris Janzen Longacre – kino-fada.fr One of my favorite cookbooks of all time I kept the library copy until I thought they were going to come to my house and take it back I finally have my own copyI have been really fed up with cookbooks lately they have these beautiful, lavish recipes but they all call for half a million fancy ingredients that cost a LOT and are hard to find in a small town with no easy access to gourmet grocery stores So when I saw this book and read a little about it, I wanted it More with Less sounds like code for Simple to me.So I went into this prepared for the simple ingredients and back to basics cooking and that s what I got I love that most all I have been really fed up with cookbooks lately they have these beautiful, lavish recipes but they all call for half a million fancy ingredients that cost a LOT and are hard to find in a small town with no easy access to gourmet grocery stores So when I saw this book and read a little about it, I wanted it More with Less sounds like code for Simple to me.So I went into this prepared for the simple ingredients and back to basics cooki...I have an earlier, spiral bound edition of this book that I purchased over ten years ago At the time, I was a stay at home mom and our financial situation wasn t the best The book was a big help to me because it presented scrumptious, healthy recipes that fit into our budget I was thrilled when I saw a new updated edition on Netgalley and couldn t wait to look through it I wanted to see what changes they had made This book was first published in 1976, and yet it fits in so well with the inf I have an earlier, spiral bound edition of this book that I purchased over ten years ago At the time, I was a stay at home mom and our financial situation wasn t the best The book was a big help to me because it presented scrumptious, healthy recipes that fit into our budget I was thrilled when I saw a new updated edition on Netgalley and couldn t wait to look through it I wanted to see what changes they had made This book was first publi...Longacre was clearly a woman ahead of her time Her philosophy is reminiscent of Bittman and Pollan, but this book was published decades before theirs Some of the nutritional information is now known to be incorrect, but overall it is pretty sound The first part of the book goes into great detail about her whole foods philosophy and includes nutritional and envir...While I won t be slaughtering my own chickens or converting to powdered milk anytime soon, there are quite a few recipes in this book that I am excited to try Not only does it serve as a gentle reminder about which foods and shopping methods are easiest on the environment, it is a wonderful c...Not too much to say, the first few chapters were really interesting, the rest is recipes I liked what the author had to say about what we eat, why, and also just thinking about the whole picture of food I liked the scriptures mentioned, and I appreciate that the author believes st...1 A cookbook that embraces fresh vegetables Lentils Beans And they re not side dishes 2 I would consider becoming a Mennonite for this book alone.The copyright on my copy of More with Less Cookbook is 1976 so I probably didn t take it to Ethiopia with me that year But I may have heard of it there where we worked with Mennonite missionaries at the Good Shepherd School It was the Mennonites who produced the book Ethiopia would certainly have introduced me to the need to dowith less Not only was poverty all around me, but grocery stores were very limited More with Less became my staple cookbook somewhere in the next few years be The copyright on my copy of More with Less Cookbook is 1976 so I probably didn t take it to Ethiopia with me that year But I may have heard of it there where we worked with Mennonite missionaries at the Good Shepherd School It was the Mennonites who produced the book Ethiopia would certainly have introduced me to the need to dowith less Not only was poverty all around me, but grocery stores were very limited More with Less became my staple cookbook somewhere in the next few years between Brazil and Mozambique It never asked me for a box of this or a can of that that wasn t available where I lived A side note told me I could add molasses to white sugar to get a tasty brown sugar equivalent when sugar rich Brazil thought it was too sophisticated for the brown s...New disclaimer due to newrules I was gifted a free electronic copy of this book by Herald Press, via Netgalley I am not being forced to post a review I am doing it of my own free will as I enjoy reviewing.On advice from , and based on their emailed reply My review is voluntarily and the Author publisher does not require a review in exchange or attempt to influence my review My review Although this is a reprint of an older book, this is the first time I have read a copy, and New disclaimer due to newrules I was gifted a free electronic copy of this book by Herald Press, via Netgalley I am not being forced to post a review I am doing it of my own free will as I enjoy reviewing.On advice from , and based on their emailed reply My review is voluntarily and the Author publisher does not require a review in exchange or attempt to influence my review My review Although this is a r...Years ago, I bought the original More with Less, but many moves and many years resulted in a missing copy I don t remember if I made any of the recipes, but I do remember enjoying perusing the book I was happy to receive a PDF copy of the book published by Herald Press and received through NetGalley.More with Less Cookbook was never just a cookbook It was and is a roadmap into how to view and react to food and the world Just how much do we need in order to live When does having enough chang Years ago, I bought the original More with Less, but many moves and many years resulted in a missing copy I don t remember if I made any of the recipes, but I do remember enjoying perusing the book I was happy to receive a PDF copy of the book published by Herald Press and received through NetGalley.More with Less Cookbook was never just a cookbook It was and is a roadmap into how to view and react to food and the world Just how much do we need in order to live When does having enough change to wanting too much What should be done to even out the resources available in the world These questions andare addressed in Part I of the book The answers are there also Part II is the recipes and there are lots Some are simple like Brown Gravy meat drippings, flour, sugar, salt and pepper Others ...

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19 August 2018

Doris Janzen Longacre