If you want to cook efficiently and make best use of your resources, you will love Mary Bryant Shrader’s The Modern Pioneer Pantry: A Complete Guide to Preserving Food. It will help you eliminate waste and really make use of your resources. You’ll be prepared for disasters and for those days when you have been so busy that you haven’t had a chance to go to.the store. It is a great supplement to her previous book, The Modern Pioneer Cookbook.

You can listen to an earlier podcast with Mary. She talks about her first cookbook, The Modern Pioneer Cookbook.

Do you love grilling and smoking, but you have limited space to do it? Are you new to smoking, but want to experiment? Do you just want to have fun outdoors? Watch Morgan Bolling as she experiments, very successfully, with backyard grilling. No fancy equipment, just the ordinary stuff that we all might have. The perfect equipment for fun and learning! We talk to Morgan about the show, how it came about, and whether there will be more of it. Listen, it’s on Tip of the Tongue.

Here is the cache of recipes from the show.

You probably know Morgan from America’s Test Kitchen and Cook’s Country. And she is the author of When Southern Women Cook.

Sam Gugino has had a varied career as a chef, a writer, and an actor. He has truly invented himself. He talks about all of it, including his new book, Eat, You’ll Get Hungry.

We have a conversation about his various careers and we speak a lot about his Sicilian family. The table was the center of his home and the cookbook tells the story. His recipes are delicious and reflect the old-fashioned nature of that table.

Read the book, learn about Sam, and take a few pointers from him. Listen. It’s on Tip of the Tongue.