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I'll wish you luck, also! Let us know how it goes!

Has this one been on sale before? Ruth Reichl's My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life for $1.99 for US Prime members.

I'm not sure how many North Americans are familiar with them, either. They may be unusual to some people here, also. Our CSA farmer likes to try different things. Emphasis on "north" americans, ha. They may be much more common in southern parts of N America.

They can be pretty tasty. We get them in our local CSA farm share, some of which is pictured here. I don't think they are hard to grow. You can see them in lower right in this image. I think we get them once or twice a year.

I have a few of her Indian cookbooks. Never looked at this one before and not sure why, but I own it now! Thanks, @chefmd.

That would be this Instant Pot version, I believe.

Pressure Cooking Today sent me an email saying that Amazon has the Instant Pot Duo 7-in-1 on sale tomorrow: Amazon 1-Day Deal Monday, October 2, 2017 as of 12:01 PST Instant Pot Duo 7-in-1 Multi-Use Programmable Pressure Cooker, 6 Quart $69.99 Save $29.00 or, 30% Limited to: 5 Per Person or, While Quantities Last

I saw this earlier and it seemed to have online availability but then it showed out of stock. They usually do free shipping over $75 so it might be worth checking back later for anyone wanting one in Canada.

Yes, how is Chum? Is she helping out with things? As the cats are, I assume? I love reading your blogs - or your posts in general. You have a knack for description and always make us feel warm and welcome! I also love how you draw on so many things - your own garden, local fishing and hunting, online resources(!) and bring them together to make such interesting meals.

There is a local farm here that makes salt but it's sea salt. You can let it sit for a few days so the suspended particles sink and then strain the clean water above through a fine sieve or cloth. That's all I've got. But I could put you in touch with the local salt-maker. I've never made it myself. I LOVE Lexi. More Lexi. What does Lexi eat?

I use my smartphone for many of these things also, but somehow I just don't think of it as a kitchen product. It certainly is a helper though!

There is an Android version, but it's getting pretty mixed reviews. I don't think I'll bother installing it right now. The number of 1 and 2 star reviews are almost the same as the number of 5 star reviews. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instantpot.app&hl=en#details-reviews @Anna N, have you used the Apple version? Would you recommend it?

I didn't necessarily feel impelled to rush out and buy any of these things, but I now own most of them and would never give them up! I really didn't realize how much I would use most of them until I had them. I rather overthought buying most of them, which is kind of silly considering what I pay for mani-pedis in a year, for example. Give up a few visits to the nail salon and I could easily pay for some of them, ha. In fact, I liked them so much I bought extras. I absolutely adore my Instant Pots, my immersion circulators (Anova and Joule, but love the compactness of the Joule), my Cuisinart steam ovens, and my induction cooktop. The induction cooktop is probably my fave in some ways since I use it a lot and the ease of clean-up makes me smile every time. Also love that it doesn't heat up the kitchen in summer and no open flame or hot surface to threaten cat or occasional young child visitor (or husband). The CSO is close in terms of use - I use it daily. But I love them all. Is the iPhone a kitchen product? I'm an Android fan, and I like my OS to be lean and promptly updated so I go with Google Nexus or Pixel lately, but the only thing I use it for in the kitchen is the Joule app and I'm not exactly enthralled with that. Do other people enjoy that app? Or other smartphone features for the kitchen? I use my tablet for recipes sometimes, but only if I really can't print them out.

I would share your tale with the IP people in Ottawa. I think they like to know how resilient their product is but, if I were them, I might just offer you a new pot. You have done some inadvertent testing of the pot's limits and demonstrated your love for the product. It might be just fine going forward but I would at least talk to them.

Wow, some wonderful stuff here. I'm doing minimal stuff this summer, though I did make some super-small batches of jam - here are some raspberry, blackberry and apricot jams. Not processed, so we will have to try and use them up fairly quickly.

Was the disorganization typical for this event, do you know? Is it an event you would encourage others to attend? (Not asking for myself at all, just a general question for people who might be interested in attending.)

So @Kerry Beal, do you think it was a good use of your advertising dollar to attend? I hope so and I hope you guys had fun, too!

You're kinda like the chocolate MacGyver, you!

Sorry, I had to go out and do a bunch of running around. I'm honestly not sure what to think. It does seem bizarre that an IP address would change the price. But the supervisor said he went through changing his IP address to one in the UK and one in Canada to test it. There are often geographic restrictions on things, but signing in to Prime then negates that, so it seems odd. And yes, Amazon does NOT usually give better deals north of the 49th!

Conclusion is that the IP address I am logging in from is causing the price changes. The book is on sale in Canada and logging in from Canada basically shows the lower price available to Canadians, even though I am logging in as a US Prime member on the US site. So, that's kind of what was suggested up above. Weird, though. You wouldn't think that location would change a price for a different country's Amazon site.

Still chatting. I sent a copy of the screen pricing to them. They have no idea. But they are making me jump through a bunch of hoops - trying different devices, browser details, etc. I'm starting to regret asking them!

Still chatting, still no good answer. The response of two reps so far is that the book's price is $14.55 US. I pointed out all the discrepancies and they are now forwarding me on to a supervisor/manager.

I'm a Prime member in both countries. Just started a chat session with Amazon Help, and will let you know what i find out.

Yes, might have to purchase at higher price and then ask for credit for difference. Bit of a pain. Or do chat session or something in advance and ask for price adjustment?

I'm pretty sure that Amazon would adjust to the lower the price, should any Prime members purchase at the higher price. But that would be a bit of a hassle.