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Title

• The Commonsense Kitchen

Author

• Tom Hudgens

Publisher

• Chronicle Books

The Commonsense Kitchen

500 Recipes Plus Lessons for a Hand-Crafted Life

Overview

From the publisher

Every once in a while, a cookbook comes along that is at once so useful and so spirited you can imagine it becoming a kitchen staple. The Commonsense Kitchen is such a book. And it’s from an unusual source: one of the toughest colleges to get into in the United States.

Deep Springs is an organic farm, school, and working cattle ranch in the high desert of the Sierra Nevada. Written by a former cook at the college, this general cookbook has more than 500 recipes for delicious, honest staples and sassy regional specialties, such as Red Chile Enchiladas and Mama Nell’s Kentucky Bourbon Balls.

The Commonsense Kitchen also features amazing food as well as lessons in life skills, from the proper way to wash dishes to how to make homemade soap. It’s a book that sits equally at home on the shelf of an urban foodie or a rural home cook.

Read an excerpt from this book

The Commonsense Kitchen

Selected contents

• Chicken Cooked Under a Brick
• Aunt Lela’s Buttermilk Pie