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Eat | Drink | Cheap Episode 35 – Cookbooks For Christmas

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Shawn and Simon have already given their ideas for cheap holiday gifts… Now that we are all on the home stretch, maybe it’s time to find that tome for a loved one who loves to cook! Lots of recomendations for beginners, intermediates and people who have lost their minds and want to bake. Happy Holidays everyone!!!

Questions, comments or corrections? Hit us up at email@eatdrinkcheap.ca

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Music by John Palmer

Show notes and Shout Outs:

  • Jamie’s Dinners by Jamie Oliver (For the beginner!)
  • The three-book series by Jeffery Alford and Naimoi Duguid (For the Coffee Table!)
  • Cooking by Hand by Paul Bertolli (For the Intermediate with passion!)
  • The Tassajara Bread Book by Edward Espe Brown (for the aspiring baker!)
  • RIPE Cookbook by Ann Kask which proceeds go to Diabetes Canada (featuring yours truly!)
  • Rebar, Modern Food Cookbook by Audrey Alsterberg and Wanda Urbanowicz
  • Tartine by Chad Robertson
  • Ready for Dessert by David Leibovitz
  • Baked, New Frontiers in Baking By Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito
  • My Pokemon Cookbook By Victoria Rosenthal
  • And the necronom nom nom
  • Bonus Mentions: Flavour Bible By Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg and Anything by Hank Shaw

More Cookbooks!!!!

Cookbooks For Christmas!
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Eat | Drink | Cheap Episode 34 – Prepping For The Holidays

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As we careen into the most wonderful, often times stressful and most financially difficult time of the year Simon and Shawn share some ideas for cheap gifts and activities in the kitchen that will really bring your loved ones together.

Questions, comments or corrections? Hit us up at email@eatdrinkcheap.ca

eatdrinkcheap.ca

eadrinkbreathe.com/podcast

Music by John Palmer

Show notes and Shout Outs:

Deadfall Brewing: https://www.deadfallbrewing.com/

Tasting HIstory with Max Miller: https://www.youtube.com/c/tastinghistory

What the hell is a Woodchuck? https://a-z-animals.com/animals/groundhog-woodchuck/pictures/

Broken Record Podcast: https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/broken-record

Hermanos Guiterrez: https://www.hermanosgutierrez.ch/

2018 Holiday Guide: Gifts for Sausage Making at Home

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My wife and I have somehow found ourselves with a bit of time off this holiday season and have decided this is the year to indulge in our strange, shared desire to make sausage. Don’t laugh; I’ve wanted to craft tube meat since I attended the NVICA event back in April and Crystal’s been saying we pay too much for prefabs forever.

So we pooled our meager pre-Christmas funds and went in on a sausage stuffer, not knowing that it takes a wee bit more gear to actually get stuffing. A quick peek through all the charcuterie books on my shelf and a couple eleventh hour Amazon orders later we now have a complete kit for sausage making ready for a holiday sausage party. Read More

2014 Holiday Guide : Ten Gifts For Geeky Cooks

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2014 Holiday Gift Guide - GeeksAs many sharp readers may have guessed, I’m not only a cook, amateur writer and degenerate wastrel, but a huge… And I mean HUGE geek. Capital G!

I love 80s ‘wrasslin, comic books, Godzilla flicks and nostalgic video games almost as much as love shaping dumplings or searing duck breasts. So when I was researching my 2014 Holiday Guides (plural, I also have a gift guide for foragers in the works that probably won’t make it out before X-Mas) I was floored by the massive amount of geek-centric kitchen gifts available to the internet-savvy public.

Sites like Nerd Approved, Archie MacPhee’s, and Pintrest led me down a long ‘n dark rabbit hole of nerdy kitchen accessories. This stuff is serious kitsch… It’s like the internet knows me!

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