Crazy Good e-Book Bargains

[Anna N]

Hmmm. At Amazon.ca the Kindle version is a dollar more than the hardcopy and at $36.98 I gave it to pass.   

[thurbers]

24 minutes ago, Anna N said:

Hmmm. At Amazon.ca the Kindle version is a dollar more than the hardcopy and at $36.98 I gave it to pass.   

 

 

Pass? That price would have had me sprinting away in terror. 

[blue_dolphin]

Earlier this week, the Smitten Kitchen blog gave a shout-out to The Essential Instant Pot Cookbook: Fresh and Foolproof Recipes for Your Electric Pressure Cooker.  Since the Kindle edition is currently $2.99 on Amazon.com (not on Amazon.ca), I bought it.   

I haven't cooked anything from it yet but it seems like a solid Instant Pot cookbook - uses the IP for what it does well, doesn't try to make it do everything, has a good section of Instant Pot basics/FAQs and a section on adapting recipes for the IP.  

 

Personally, I found some of the recipes in Melissa Clark's Dinner in an Instant (NOT on sale!) more interesting to me, but think my $2.99 was well spent on this one. 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

14 hours ago, thurbers said:

Don't know if this is of any interest but  the kindle version of Alex Guarnaschelli's The Home Cook has been marked down to $2.99 for however long. 

 

The Home Cook: Recipes to Know by Heart

 

And add me to those whose ebook cook book collection is so large it would run me out of my apartment if I had the physical books. I still love a real cookbook, but I can't resist the chance to read and sample a wide variety of cook books from classics to the latest hot thing with little money and no need for shelf space.  

 

 

Done!

 

[Toliver]

Hi, I'm Toliver the Enabler 

 

There were a lot of previously mentioned cookbooks (some from at least 1 year ago) but i won't list them again with one exception:

 

"Bean By Bean: A Cookbook: More than 175 Recipes for Fresh Beans, Dried Beans, Cool Beans, Hot Beans, Savory Beans, Even Sweet Beans!" Kindle Edition $1.20US

Odd price, even for a cookbook on sale...

 

"The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook: The number one best-seller now revised and expanded with new recipes" Kindle Edition $0.99US

 

Wesley Avila's "Guerrilla Tacos: Recipes from the Streets of L.A." Kindle Edition $2.99US

See the "Look Inside" feature to see his list of salsa recipes.

 

The Deceptively Easy Dessert Cookbook: Simple Recipes for Extraordinary No-Bake & Baked Sweets" Kindle Edition $1.99US (read the fine print regarding the actual price)

 

"Simply Beautiful Homemade Cakes: Extraordinary Recipes and Easy Decorating Techniques" Kindle Edition $2.99US

 

Michele Scicolone's "The French Slow Cooker" Kindle Edition $2.99US

It has a blurb by Dorie Greenspan in the book info. Two recipes from the cookbook are listed on this book's info page.

 

Here's the "Previously mentioned cookbook on sale":

"Lucky Peach Presents 101 Easy Asian Recipes" Kindle Edition $1.99US

 

I am a US Prime member and the prices you see may vary.

 

 

 

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

34 minutes ago, Toliver said:

Hi, I'm Toliver the Enabler 

 

There were a lot of previously mentioned cookbooks (some from at least 1 year ago) but i won't list them again with one exception:

 

"Bean By Bean: A Cookbook: More than 175 Recipes for Fresh Beans, Dried Beans, Cool Beans, Hot Beans, Savory Beans, Even Sweet Beans!" Kindle Edition $1.20US

Odd price, even for a cookbook on sale...

 

 

Note the digital list price of Bean by Bean is $1.99, so if the sale price had been $1.99 it would not have been much of a bargain.

 

In addition to beans and Lucky Peach I also picked up Phoenix Claws and Jade Trees for $1.99.

 

[Anna N]

50 minutes ago, Toliver said:

Hi, I'm Toliver the Enabler 

Not this time. 

[kayb]

Had to get Bean by Bean just because I haven't heard of Crescent Dragonwagon for ages. She's a former hippie who settled for a time in Eureka Springs, AR, and got all into herbalism and natural foods and such. Interesting character.

 

And the Hummingbird Cookbook. I might actually bake something sweet, one of these days.

[MelissaH]

The Cherry Bombe Cookbook is currently $2.99.

[Toliver]

A couple others for this morning:

 

James Beard-nominated food writer Sarah DiGregorio's "Adventures in Slow Cooking: 120 Slow-Cooker Recipes for People Who Love Food" Kindle Edition $1.99US

 

From the chef, restaurant owner, and author of the critically lauded A Girl and Her Pig April Bloomfield's "A Girl and Her Greens: Hearty Meals from the Garden" Kindle Edition $1.99US

Use the "Look Inside" feature on this book to see the extensive recipe index contained in the book.

 

I am a US Prime member and the price you see may vary.

[ElsieD]

21 minutes ago, Toliver said:

A couple others for this morning:

 

James Beard-nominated food writer Sarah DiGregorio's "Adventures in Slow Cooking: 120 Slow-Cooker Recipes for People Who Love Food" Kindle Edition $1.99US

 

From the chef, restaurant owner, and author of the critically lauded A Girl and Her Pig April Bloomfield's "A Girl and Her Greens: Hearty Meals from the Garden" Kindle Edition $1.99US

Use the "Look Inside" feature on this book to see the extensive recipe index contained in the book.

 

I am a US Prime member and the price you see may vary.

 

I have to ask - how do you find these offers?

[Toliver]

Just now, ElsieD said:

 

I have to ask - how do you find these offers?

I confess I stumble on to them.

I do use the daily Bookbub email notification but have found they only recommend a single cookbook per day (Pikers! ).

I look at the info pages for cookbooks I am considering (but often bypass) and down below the main info section of the cookbook is a listing called "Customers who bought this item also bought". I peruse those cookbooks (use the side arrows to zip through about 15 pages of other cookbooks offered) and often find the proverbial "diamond in the rough"...meaning a cookbook on sale for a bargain-basement price. Note that I skip the "Sponsored Products related to this item" section as I don't need shilled items thrown at me, please. 

The two cookbooks I posted above were discovered in this manner.

[Anna N]

3 hours ago, ElsieD said:

A couple others for this morning:

 

James Beard-nominated food writer Sarah DiGregorio's "Adventures in Slow Cooking: 120 Slow-Cooker Recipes for People Who Love Food" Kindle Edition $1.99US

 I almost fell off my chair when I read the introduction was by Grant Achatz!  

[Toliver]

From this afternoon's stumblings...some may have been posted before...

 

Paula Wolfert's "Couscous and Other Good Food from Morocco" Kindle Edition $1.99US

 

This was on sale about 2 years ago:
Rose Levy Beranbaum's "Rose's All-Original All-American Pie Recipes" Kindle Edition $2.99US

 

Ken Haedrich's "Pie Zero to Pie Hero: How to Ditch Your Fears, Master the Crust and Bake the Perfect Pie" Kindle Edition $0.99US

 

I am a US Prime member and the price you see may vary.

[Porthos]

1 hour ago, Toliver said:

Paula Wolfert's "Couscous and Other Good Food from Morocco" Kindle Edition $1.99US

 

This was a no-brainer. I like the way I fix couscous, but I would like to add variety.

[kayb]

Grabbed that one not 20 minutes before you posted it. If you will look at Amazon, under Kindle Books and Cookbooks, they will give you an option for "deals." It'll be a dozen or so el cheapo cookbooks. I contemplated, but decided against, Tartine, at 2.99. I just don't bake that many sweets.

 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

I picked up the Wolfert, DiGregorio, and Bloomfield.

 

As to sources, I saw in an email the other day that the Eat Your Books folks are going to be offering a compilation of Kindle cookbook bargains.

 

[nickrey]

45 minutes ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

I picked up the Wolfert, DiGregorio, and Bloomfield.

 

As to sources, I saw in an email the other day that the Eat Your Books folks are going to be offering a compilation of Kindle cookbook bargains.

 

Here: https://www.eatyourbooks.com/blog/2018/2/25/2---25-kindle-cookbook-deals

 

 

[blue_dolphin]

9 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

I picked up the Wolfert, DiGregorio, and Bloomfield.

 

As to sources, I saw in an email the other day that the Eat Your Books folks are going to be offering a compilation of Kindle cookbook bargains.

 

They've been doing it for some time and update the list often, as things change. It's my regular resource.  

 

[Toliver]

2 hours ago, blue_dolphin said:

They've been doing it for some time and update the list often, as things change. It's my regular resource.  

 

Their idea of a sale price and my idea of a bargain basement price ($2.99US or lower) are nowhere near each other.

Still, any source of a sale listing is better than none at all.

[Anna N]

16 minutes ago, Toliver said:

Their idea of a sale price and my idea of a bargain basement price ($2.99US or lower) are nowhere near each other.

Still, any source of a sale listing is better than none at all.

 Annoys me because it claims to send the member to the appropriate Amazon site which for me would be Amazon.ca but it always sends me to Amazon.com. 

[Porthos]

11 hours ago, nickrey said:

Here: https://www.eatyourbooks.com/blog/2018/2/25/2---25-kindle-cookbook-deals

 

I am not impressed with having to click on each title to find the price. Color me lazy.  As an aside, I am a member of EYB and am happy with their service.

[Toliver]

Found this morning...

 

Mary-Frances Heck's "Sweet Potatoes: Roasted, Loaded, Fried, and Made into Pie" Kindle Edition $1.99US

 

I am a US Prime member and the price you see may vary.

[kayb]

Thanks! Snapped that one up. The sweet potato is my spirit vegetable.

 

[Anna N]

 

Feel compelled to share this with you: 

 

“Tools are tools, and once you know what a slow cooker does well—steaming, acting as a water bath, braising—you can use it in a regimented way to great effect. It reminds me of when I started at the French Laundry in 1996, soon after that memorable dinner with my father. I got to my station and there was a microwave there. I recoiled; I thought this is terrible—but of course it wasn’t. You have to remove your value judgments and think about it as a tool, nothing more. The only relevant question is, what can it do?”