Eating locally, I think you just get out of the habit: farmer’s markets are typically open for only a brief spell once a week ( mine is Saturdays from 9 am – 1 pm), so you get into the habit of buying a lot of staples, picking up whatever looks fresh and tasty, and making meals of it. I’ll tell you something about me: I almost never shop specifically for a recipe. By Friday afternoon all 30 lbs of cookbook joy were crowding my kitchen counter by Saturday morning I was paging through Around My French Table, coffe and toast to hand, making notes and gathering ideas. But still: a nice perk.) Astonishing as two big, fat, fabulous cookbooks are for the low, low price of $6, even more astonishing is that they arrived overnight. This is what social media is all about: $3 cookbooks! ( OK. And posted it to my Facebook page, whereupon some of you lovely people snapped up your own copies. Did you catch the awesome deal on Amazon last week? Two of Dorie Greenspan’s books, Baking and Around My French Table, for $6! As soon as David Lebovitz posted it, I snapped up two sets of books: one for me, one for future gifting.
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