How to Eat 3 Good Meals for Just $4 a Day, Every week, Yahoo Food spotlights a cookbook that stands out from all the rest. This week’s cookbook is Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day by Leanne Brown. Check out more Yahoo Food Cookbooks of the Week here.harred Summer Salad. Photo: Leanne Brown and Dan Lazin.
Then she posted the cookbook online under the title Good & Cheap and made it available to download for free.
“My philosophy is: If people want this information, they should have it,” Brown told Yahoo Food. “It was really important there be no barriers.”
The book took on a life of its own. More than 800,000 downloads later, the cookbook had clearly struck a nerve.
A subsequent Kickstarter campaign to fund printed versions raised $144,681, fueling the donation of 12,000 books to nonprofits across the United States and Canada. Nearly 40,000 more were sold at massive discounts to those same groups.
By many accounts, the response has been tremendously successful — certainly greater than Brown ever imagined. But the author acknowledges that occasional negative commentary has made its way back to her.
Then she posted the cookbook online under the title Good & Cheap and made it available to download for free.
“My philosophy is: If people want this information, they should have it,” Brown told Yahoo Food. “It was really important there be no barriers.”
The book took on a life of its own. More than 800,000 downloads later, the cookbook had clearly struck a nerve.
A subsequent Kickstarter campaign to fund printed versions raised $144,681, fueling the donation of 12,000 books to nonprofits across the United States and Canada. Nearly 40,000 more were sold at massive discounts to those same groups.
By many accounts, the response has been tremendously successful — certainly greater than Brown ever imagined. But the author acknowledges that occasional negative commentary has made its way back to her.
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