pickThis was a fun book. It‘s written like The Core of an Onion, in that it‘s half history, half recipes. I love butter and love to try all kinds. This book tells you how butter has been made through the centuries, its values, and significance in religion. It‘ll have you thinking about just how special it is every time you grab a spoon of it!
The Great Butter Rebellion, which took place at Harvard University in 1766, was the first recorded student protest in the United States. Since the opening of Harvard‘s gates in 1636, food service had been an issue and the quality of the butter was exceptionally poor. Apparently one meal with particularly rancid butter led Asa Dunbar (the grandfather of Henry David Thoreau) to jump upon his chair and proclaim: “Behold, our butter stinketh!—⬇️
Friends, I think our furry family members have been holding out on us🤣I need my husky and two Bostons to start making some butter for me!
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3 buddy reads #adventuresinphilosophy #camplitsy24 #Butter #hastagbrigade #littlewomen #librarybook #audible #readyourkindle
Trying to start Prodigal Summer as it is in my TBR for #litsolace #midsummersolace
🎉🎉🎉🎉Yay! Tomorrow I am out of school for the summer!!!!!!!
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My mom found this old book and included it in our Xmas box of goodies this year.
pickDamn, this was fascinating. There were a few bits where it felt a bit slow but generally, a really enjoyable micro history that made me hungry and desperate to buy higher quality butter (but I‘m delighted that one of the butters she highlights in the book is fairly local to me!)
Book 4 of 15 for #15books15weeks
As I was trucking around, collecting books for my #JulyTBR, EDP said to me “That‘s a lot, even for you.” He‘s not wrong. So many leftovers from a bad June, a couple of #HeyCarrots reads to catch up, my #GirlyBookClub and #FlaviaBuddyRead books for July, the #Potteraday, a bunch of #15Books15Weeks to get me back on track, a couple of #PemberLittens books and one that I added to the stack cause why not?!
pickButter lovers alert! This history of butter will make you want to slather it on even more. From Neolithic times in Ireland to Buddhist butter meditation in Asia, butter-making tools around the world, dietary science squabbles, and finishing off with some tantalizing recipes in which butter is boss.
(Photo: I should know better than to leave the butter dish on the stove when the oven is on. 😬)
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