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The honest trade-offs nobody puts on the box, plus the failures that kill each type and how to avoid them.

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Your sourdough starter isn't dead, it's on day three

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A new baby, a surgery, a layoff. One Saturday of cooking buys you fourteen dinners, if you freeze the right things the right way.

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A Blue Zones Week of Beans, Greens and a Table Worth Sitting At

Seven days of cheap, filling food built around a big pot of beans, a pile of greens, and dinner with people you actually like.

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