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The Sad Bastard Cookbook - No longer available on Amazon

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  1. [5]
    patience_limited
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    I'm directly linking the original author's page, as well as the Mastodon discussion that sparked a front-page HN thread. The e-book is free here; the authors are trying to find a new...

    I'm directly linking the original author's page, as well as the Mastodon discussion that sparked a front-page HN thread. The e-book is free here; the authors are trying to find a new print-on-demand vendor.

    I'm posting in ~food because I'm more interested in promoting a charming, user-friendly cookbook aimed at people with mental, physical, and financial disabilities, inexperienced cooks, the time-strained, and everyone who's just got nothing left in the energy bank, than in starting another "Evil Amazon" discussion.

    It's easy in foodie-world to treat anything that isn't slow, local, organic, lovingly prepared for Insta, etc. as unworthy or contemptible. But we've all got to eat, and this book makes just feeding yourself okay.

    I had all these plans to cook, and enthusiastically bought groceries yesterday. Today I woke up, and discovered that it was going to be a fine day to lie flat on the couch instead because ouch. Finding out this cookbook existed was a ray of sunshine.

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      DefinitelyNotAFae
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      Thank you for this! Is there a way to tip the author for the book? I may have missed one. As much as "girl dinner" spawned some weird gendered takes, I'm a big fan of "throw something vegetable, a...

      Thank you for this! Is there a way to tip the author for the book? I may have missed one.

      As much as "girl dinner" spawned some weird gendered takes, I'm a big fan of "throw something vegetable, a protein, some fat and some carbs together and it doesn't matter how or what those things are in the end. Eat. Fed is best applies to adults too

      ETA: also to note for those interested i think it's veggie/vegan which is great! I'm neither but always appreciate more recipes and if I had the spoons to cook meat I'd probably have done so.

      5 votes
      1. [3]
        patience_limited
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        There's discussion on itch.io which mentions that the authors aren't asking for tips on this book, but if you want to support them, they'd welcome purchases of their individual novels instead. The...

        There's discussion on itch.io which mentions that the authors aren't asking for tips on this book, but if you want to support them, they'd welcome purchases of their individual novels instead. The illustrator, Marten Norr, also has their own book.

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  2. DefinitelyNotAFae
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    For folks that might want to check out the creators' other works (Amazon links because that's where I get ebooks but ya know, do you) Zilla Novikov's Books Rachel A Rosen's books I'm really...

    For folks that might want to check out the creators' other works (Amazon links because that's where I get ebooks but ya know, do you)

    Zilla Novikov's Books

    Rachel A Rosen's books I'm really interested in Cascade from a quick glance.

    Marten Norr's publications

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