3 stars A nice intro with various tips for reducing food waste. This book covers quite a bit of ground in a short amount of time. Includes ideas on cooking with and regrowing from food scraps. Also includes some basic information on storage, meal planning, composting, and guidelines for judging freshness. Note, this is more…
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4 stars A sweet, adorable tale about cooking, finding your passions, gaining confidence, and always having friends by your side. Such a cute story. Melendez provides a fresh, fun look at life after college complete with the struggles of finding a job, dealing with overbearing parents, new crushes, and fights with friends. Plenty of romantic…
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3 stars A fun picture book about dragons and their love of tacos. Humorous and engaging, great for reading aloud. The pictures are hilarious (loved the pantload of tacos). If nothing else this book will make you crave tacos and wish you could have a taco party with dragons. Goodreads
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4 stars A delicious book recounting the tale of a girl trying different foods (even though pizza is the best!) for the sake of science. Perfect for pizza lovers of all ages and a good reminder about how fun (and delectable!) it can be to try new foods. Gianna Ruggiero‘s illustrations are just the right…
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2 stars I currently work in a library and this series is quite popular among our patrons. Though I haven’t read many cozy mysteries, I wanted to see what it was all about. There were a lot of cringey moments with bad writing, overly detailed scenes, terrible police work, unethical vigilantism, talking down to the…
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4 stars A fantastic look into modern food industries told in three parts. Each represents a way of obtaining food by following a specific source. Corn represents the industrial food complex, touching on corn surplus, monocultures, subsidies, health effects, the co-evolution of plants and humans, and concentrated animal feeding operations. Next is the pastoral view,…
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