Butter: Comforting, Delicious, Versatile - Over 130 Recipes Celebrating Butter

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The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. What I did like was that it’s about a boy who’s morbidly obese, and has a lot of health issues related to his weight. Swirled into hot sugar to create a silken, smoky caramel, or browned until nutty and speckled before being folded through cake batter or buttercream.

But in the book, of course, Butter has to cut all the sugar out and take insulin, because he's immune to glucose. Food history has begun to get its due with books like Mark Kurlansky's Salt, and now Elaine Khosrova's Butter: A Rich History.

A sort of dark comedy that gives insight into another form of bullying - that of the 'friends' who use and abuse, which the victim ignores because they just want to be accepted and have friends. I waffled about requesting this (sorry) (no, I'm not – I'm just trying not to make culinary puns all throughout), but I went ahead hoping for some fascinating details about how butter was invented/discovered, and how it has impacted history, and all the hows and whys and wherefores of it. I hadn’t known there was so much to learn about butter and its history and I enjoyed finding out more about something from my everyday world that I had taken for granted.

We all should know by now that bullying is wrong and making fun of other people because of their appearances is also wrong. From its humble agrarian origins to its present-day artisanal glory, butter has a fascinating story to tell, and Khosrova is the perfect person to tell it.

In the real world, the "big three" of diabetic symptoms - which is pretty common knowledge - is sweating, thirst, and confusion. It was also the reason why I went around asking my friends: “do you know that yak butter costs twice as much as cow butter in Bhutan?

BUTTER deals with real life issues just like in WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS, though on a totally different scale and I now place BUTTER alongside it as a favorite read in that genre style of storytelling.Unfortunately, this didn't compensate for the cast of one-sided characters and Butter's lack of logic. When Butter makes his announcement, strangers come out of the woodwork and decide that they are going to be his “friend”. Reaching out to friends and loved ones was helpful for me, but it turns out I needed more help; I’m seeing both a therapist and a psychiatrist now. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. Product image(s) shown are for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product.

But he never goes to the nurse before lunch to get that checked, or to take insulin before binging on his lunch. It's a deceptively insightful book into the mindset of the obese, and what comes with it - the looks, the stares, the fight to lose weight, the retreat into food for comfort, their enablers - all of it. Aside from fuelling poor food choices and compromised health, such regulatory decisions may have fostered a growing erosion of public trust in the institutions established to protect citizens from exactly this sort of thing. The battle between butter and margarine was probably the most interesting part of the book, with butter's chemistry coming in second. We can’t condone obesity because of the serious and undeniable health affects that it brings into a person’s life, but it seems we ought to be able to discuss the issues without personally condemning those that are struggling with serious weight issues.Teenagers of all walks of life, especially those with body image issues, self sabotage with the best of them. The author's own tales of eating butter in various countries and villages started to bother my germ phobia, especially her tasting water buffalo milk in Punjab where the container was some secondhand scrap on the floor that the woman was mixing her hands in.