Apocalypse Chow: How to Eat Well When the Power Goes Out, Cookbook of the Day

When the power goes out, you lose a lot of the functionality of your kitchen. The microwave doesn't work, nor does the oven. You can't use your coffee machine, and neither will an electric stove. The worst thing, aside from the fact that such situations are almost entirely unpredictable, is that your refrigerator and freezer will be powerless, meaning that to clock is rapidly ticking for all the perishable foods that are so important to our daily meals.Apocalypse Chow: How to Eat Well When the Power Goes Out is a lighthearted look at how - and what - to cook when you can't use any of the resources that we normally take for granted. It includes lists of safe, easy-to-store foods, as well as other disaster-preparedness tips, and suggestions for putting together a reliable and electricity-free cooking system. The 50 or so recipes are easy to follow and require minimal work to put together dishes - all of the ones in the book are vegetarian - like Almost-Instant Black Bean Chili, Pantry Pasta Salad, Skillet Peach Crumble and Garlicky Chickpeas with Potatoes and Tomatoes.

And, lest you think that the book is only handy in natural disasters (and Bachelors, as the cover suggests), consider that it is not a bad idea to have a book full of recipes that require minimal cooking and shelf-stable (or just long lasting) foods for those times when you just don't feel like working too hard in the kitchen.

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