Etta Corbin
Pantry economics for people who cook on weeknights.
About
I'm a home cook, not a chef and not a nutritionist, which I consider the whole point.
After emptying my pantry onto the dining room table one winter and counting forty-seven separate dry goods — most of them redundant, several expired — I spent two years reverse-engineering the boxed mixes I had been buying. They turned out to be built, nearly all of them, from the same twelve cheap ingredients.
The Mix-Once, Cook-Anytime Pantry System is what came out of that. I write about what things actually cost, I show the arithmetic, and I have never once believed a testimonial that landed on a round number.
The book
Dry Mix Pantry Cookbook
The 12-Ingredient Pantry System: 24 Mixes That Become 75 Meals, Sides, Sauces and Sweets
Twenty-four jars, built from twelve common ingredients, that replace the boxed mixes and seasoning packets sitting on your shelf right now.