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"I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object." -- Thomas Jefferson
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Wednesday, January 13, 2021

My Favorite Free Online Cookbooks

Recipes from the Kitchen of a Frugal Non-Cook
Helping those who feel like an alien in the kitchen with
simple, basic, one pot, single serving, easy, healthy, recipes.
 
My recipes are:
  • Frugal, healthy, and simple.
  • Friendly for those who have difficulty trying to cook.
  • Focused on those who do not have a full kitchen complement of equipment, utensils, or supplies.
  • Helpful for those who do not have regular access to fresh fruits and vegetables or specific ingredients.
  • Geared towards small portions or single servings.

Being frugal in the kitchen means finding free or sales on kitchen utensils, cookbooks, and food items. Other money savers including: using inexpensive food items as substitutes for more expensive items, and making your own (DIY) dressings, sauces, salsas, pesto, and more.


My Favorite Free Online Cookbooks
Including PDFs, free eBooks, Websites, and Extension sources
 


NIH/NHLBI Delicious Heart Healthy Recipes
 


Keep the Beat Recipes
 
HHS Healthy Home Cooking African American Style
 
USDA White House Healthier US School Challenge Celebration -- October 17, 2011
 
The Great Little Cookbook
 
A Cookbook by Ted
Need to login at Smashwords
 
Project Gutenberg
Search "Cookbook" or “Cook Book” and you will get lots of choices like:
 
The Cookery Blue Book
 
Barilla Celebrity Cookbook
 
Cusinart Convection Oven Microwave Grill CookBook
 
Wikipedia Cookbook
 


Mount Vernon Recipes
 
Open Culture Cookbook Archive
 
AmeriFlax Cookbook
 
Yucatan Goverment / Servicos de Salud de Yucatan
Recetario Saludable

Washington State University

University of Ilinois

Cornell Cooperative Extension

Iowa State University

University of Nebraska

Virginia Tech

University of Maryland Extension

University of Florida IFAS Extension

BBC Food
@bbcgoodfood

Budget Bytes
@Budget_Bytes

Cdkitchen
@CDKitchen.com

Chowhound
@CHOW

Cocina Vital
@cocinavital

Cooking on a Bootstrap / Jack Monroe
@Bootstrapcook

Cooks.com

Delish
@Delishcom

The Guardian - Recipes

The Incredible Egg
@IncredibleEggs

The Kitchn
@theKitchn
 
My Latina Table
@MyLatinaTable
 
My Plate
@MyPlate

My Recipes
@My_Recipes
 
Recipes
@recipes
 
RecipeTinEats
 
The Spruce Eats
 
WW

Wikipedia: Food

Wikipedia: Food, Cookbook, Recipes
 

Note: Many Food Manufactures have recipes on their websites, for example:
 
Goya
 
 
Highlight
A Cookbook byTed
from Smashwords
 
 

Sunday, December 27, 2020

Project Gutenberg - The First Internet eBook Library

Project Gutenberg
 

One website I frequent a lot is Project Gutenberg. Their inventory of over 60,000 eBooks has a lot of classics and surprises. It also has cookbooks.
 
Basically, after searching their inventory, you can download your selection in various formats like: HTML, ePub, Plain Text and more.

In conjunction with Project Gutenberg, I use iBooks.

These are a sample of some of the classics available:
  • The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
  • The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.
  • Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson
  • The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
  • Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley
  • A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  • Persuasion by Jane Austin
  • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Mother Goose and other children's books
There are also dictionaries, histories and more.
 
Some of the surprises I found are: you can post your self-published eBook on Project Gutenberg but it will be free to Project Gutenberg visitors and find unusual books like:
 
A General History of the Pyrates by Captain Charles Johnson
 
Hindustani Lyrics Rendered From The Urdu by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook

Six Months in Mexico by Nellie Bly

 
Of course, I searched for Cookbooks and these are just two of many I found:

The Suffrage Cook Book complied by L.G. Kleber
 

The California Mexican-Spanish Cookbook by Bertha Haffner-Ginger
 

 According to A History of Project Gutenberg, Project Gutenberg (1971-2008) by Marie Lebert, Michael Hart created Project Gutenberg in June 1971 at the University of Illinois. At first, he typed in each book as eText (ASCII) and stored it on the mainframe for others to access. The first book he typed was the Declaration of Independence. Over the next few years, Hart continued to type and store other classic books. In essence, he created the eBook.
 
Hart defined Project Gutenberg's mission as:
 
“...to put at everyone's disposal, in electronic versions, as many literary works of the public domain as possible for free....We consider eText to be a new medium, with no real relationship to paper, other than presenting the same material, but I don't see how paper can possibly compete once people each find their own comfortable way to eTexts, especially in schools.” --Excerpt From: Marie Lebert. “Project Gutenberg (1971-2008).” Apple Books.
 
Reading about the changes in computer technology in parallel Project Gutenberg's adaptations to these changes is a fascinating read. From 1 book a year to 1 book a month, by 1994, Project Gutenberg had published 100 eBooks. Today, its inventory is over 60,000 eBooks, in English and other languages.
 
Also, Project Gutenberg invites volunteers to help proofread the text of books in process for uploading as an eBook.
 
 
Resources:
 
 A History of Project Gutenberg, Project Gutenberg (1971-2008) by Marie Lebert
 
Project Gutenberg
University of Illinois