Highly recommended if you have ever wondered about homemade vs store bought (price, hassle, taste). My Greek yogurt and the ginger ale turned out great! Loved the backyard chicken story.

I really enjoyed this chronicle of one woman's efforts to balance responsible consumerism, back-to-the-land ethics with practically and Northern California yuppy tastes. And she shares her story with a balanced recipe of self-deprecating insights on her successes, failures, and compromises told with gentle humor and an intelligent, readable style. If you enjoyed Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolvers' food adventures, this is right up your row (or aisle, depending if you're gardening or shopping). I've never bought a cookbook electronically - I'm curious to see if I adapt from paper to iPad when cooking. But really, this is so much more than a cookbook; it's a food adventure and a journey of exploration, from raising livestock to homemade yogurt, canadian bacon, bagels and more? And since it inspires adventure, I'll take my cues and give a new cookbook form, and some of the recipes, a try. But I do wish the editors would be a bit more careful - found at least one misspelling ("grocery" in the Bahn Me recipe) - small point, I know. But for the cost of an ebook I'd like it to be correct.