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Kat A Day

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Kat Day has never been on a cooking show, but she wouldn't mind judging one. It is free food after all.

Balancing jobs between writing and cooking seemed difficult at first - but then she thought, oh, why not? Let's combine them.

And so her eighth book was born.

She currently lives in a central city in Illinois with her goofy pit bull mix. She owns her own Dungeons & Dragons inspired LARPing business, has an insane love for salmon, and strives to live that nerd life every day.

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	Bare Minimum by Janet Kuypers (Goodreads Author), Jim Long, Eric Burbridge 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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