Big Food: Amazing ways to cook, store, freeze, and serve everything you buy in bulk

by Elissa Altman

Buy food in bulk and reap the savings—without waste or an endless parade of leftover meals—with this superb cookbook filled with ideas for cooking creatively for an average-sized family

More and more Americans are purchasing their groceries today in large quantities at price clubs and warehouses. But our meal planning and cooking habits have not caught up with this trend. At last, here is the first cookbook designed to help shoppers make the most of the money-saving and culinary rewards that these clubs have to offer—without having to eat the same dish four nights in a row or trash the unused portions.

How long can I keep salad greens before they turn into something out of a horror movie? How can I use that 72-ounce can of tuna without making 110 tuna sandwiches, like Woody Allen did for his army in Bananas ? In Big Food, award-winning journalist and food writer/editor Elissa Altman tells readers how to shop, meal plan, and cook inventively; how to store food safely; and how to use her 150 delicious recipes to turn large quantities of chicken, for instance, into Apricot-Glaze Roasted Chicken; Asian Chicken-Stuffed Lettuce Rolls; and Quesadilla of Chicken, Childes, Tequila and Lime or a 6-8-pound salmon fillet into Curried Salmon Salad with Grapes and Walnuts, Cold Poached Salmon with Horseradish Cream, and Smoked Salmon Omelet.

304 pages, Paperback

First published August 20, 2005

About the author

Elissa Altman is the author of Poor Man’s Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking and the James Beard Award–winning blog of the same name and Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw. Her work has appeared in O: The Oprah Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The New York Times, Tin House, The Rumpus, Dame Magazine, Krista Tippet's On Being, Tablet, The Forward, LitHub, Saveur, and The Washington Post, where her column, Feeding My Mother, ran for a year. Her work has been anthologized in Best Food Writing six times. A finalist for the Frank McCourt Memoir Prize, Altman has taught the craft of memoir at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, The Loft Literary Center, 1440 Multiversity, and Ireland’s Literature and Larder Program, and has appeared live onstage at TEDx and The Public, on Heritage Radio, and on NPR’s The Splendid Table and All Things Considered. She lives in Connecticut with her family.
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Reviews

[Christy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I borrowed this book from the library thinking it would tell me what to buy in bulk, how to store, etc.
Instead it offered solutions for pantry items you may already have and recipes to use them. In my opinion it was more of a cookbook that happens to use items some people may already have on hand.....

[Abigail · Rating 1 out of 5]

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