Butter: Comforting, Delicious, Versatile - Over 130 Recipes Celebrating Butter

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The rhymes provide reassuring – and memorable – answers to the culinary conundrums we often face: How long should I boil an egg? Particularly good food history examining the role of butter--Tibetan yak butter sculpting as a religious ritual, butter churning and early modern bawdy songs, Marie Antoinette's Trianon milking parlor, the household importance of "butter and egg money," oleo and little coloring packets, modern pasteurization and production, EU PDO restrictions, the Iowa State Fair sculpture of a cow, springhouses, Reformation resentments in Northern Europe over Lenten restrictions on butter (you southerners have olive oil! His love for music has lost its shine, and even his online chats with Anna, the girl of his dreams, have to be carried out under a false persona. She has been nominated multiple times for the Naoko Prize, and her novels have been adapted for television, radio and film.

Summary: A bullied child with suicidal intentions should not make for easy reading, but this book is well done and very thought-provoking. Maybe you get some amino acids and some omega 3 fatty acids and other stuff thrown in there, but mainly what you eat gets broken down and broken into sugar.Went into this one not expecting too much so I'm not disappointed that I didn't like it or anything. Reaching out to friends and loved ones was helpful for me, but it turns out I needed more help; I’m seeing both a therapist and a psychiatrist now. I cannot imagine that Erin Jade Lange has ever been fat, known a fat person, or even seen a person who actually weighed 423 pounds.

Teenagers of all walks of life, especially those with body image issues, self sabotage with the best of them. A few basic recipes using butter feature at the back of this book, but don't read it for those; read it for a fascinating compendium of facts about butter from prehistory to date.The first half of the book was all of that – how someone might have discovered that agitating a skin of milk would result in this wonderful substance, and how it affects the lives of those who live in areas where it is produced. Pretending that entire aspects of the disease you're writing about don't exist - aspects that your character sets off in at least 4 different places through the book - is, honestly, unethical, in my opinion. While the process of making butter hasn't changed much over the years, the many different ways to do so and the different flavor profiles make for fascinating reading. In fact, I'd picked this book up after a recent bad experience in which my longtime favorite brand of butter failed me by suddenly tasting terrible. Butter- I can’t remember if his actual name is mentioned or not- has to deal with a family that seems pretty dysfunctional, and classmates that don’t think he’s really going to go through with it, until they realize he is.