Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners vs Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners Fifty-Two Sunday Dinners Elizabeth Hiller · 2016 114 pages · ≈ 2 h 07 m · Moderate

Years ago nothing but butter or lard were used for shortening and frying; to-day the visible supply of these two products is insufficient to supply the demand, taking into consideration the amount of butter required for…

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Cover of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat Samin Nosrat · 2017 ★★★★☆ 4.4 480 pages · ≈ 8 h 53 m · Moderate

A visionary new master class in cooking that distills decades of professional experience into just four simple elements, from the woman declared “America’s next great cooking teacher” by Alice Waters. In the tradition…

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Fifty-Two Sunday DinnersSalt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Goodreads — 4.4 (100286)
Hardcover — 4.5 (197)
Apple Books — 4.0 (103)

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Fifty-Two Sunday DinnersSalt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Ratings — 100286
Editions 20 9
Film adaptations — 1
Want to read — 179226
Reading it now — 16656
Written reviews — 3693
Wikipedia attention — 1271
Pages 114 480

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