{"product_id":"the-butter-book-by-monica-cavarzan","title":"The Butter Cook Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eby MONICA CAVARZAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(AUTHOR SIGNED VERSION EXCLUSIVE TO LARD ASS)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExtent: 240 pp\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSize: 26.7 x 21.7 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYou might think you know about butter. Turns out, most of us barely know butter at all!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMonica however, has spent more than a decade getting to know it extraordinarily well. For years, she wished there was a book that brought it all together. Then, completely out of the blue, Smith Street Books asked if she’d like to write one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0570\/4181\/3669\/files\/CookBook01.jpg?v=1788851986\" alt=\"\" style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe’d thought about it plenty of times, but between running a butter factory and everything else life throws, writing a book had always felt slightly impossible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut, through the winter of 2025, Monica spent her weekends holed up in a silent butter factory with a small heater on, disappearing down some truly wonderful buttery rabbit holes...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0570\/4181\/3669\/files\/CookBook02.jpg?v=1788852087\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eButter taxes that built church towers.\u003cbr\u003eButter used to sample perfume.\u003cbr\u003eThe rather questionable table manners that gave us the butter knife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnd that’s just the beginning\u003c\/strong\u003e. For such a humble ingredient, butter has found itself tangled up in an extraordinary amount of history, politics, religion and ritual.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Butter Cookbook\u003c\/strong\u003e is the book Monica always wished existed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“This book is my ode to butter. After more than ten years of churning it, shaping it, cooking with it and sharing it, I wanted to create a book that showed why butter deserves to be seen as so much more than something you just spread on toast.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0570\/4181\/3669\/files\/CookBook03.jpg?v=1788852145\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRECIPES FROM MONICA’S TABLE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe recipes come from Monica’s life: growing up with farm-churned butter, dishes her family made, food her own children grew up eating and the things she still loves to cook today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is butter with a story. Butter with history. Butter made, melted, browned, baked, churned and celebrated as it bloody well should be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe butter book you’ll soon wonder how you ever did without.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003ePRE-ORDER IS NOW OPEN.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003eBOOKS SHIPPING 6th OCTOBER.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 19, 145);\"\u003e'PICKUP' Orders available on the next market days after 6th October.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 19, 145);\"\u003eNote: Single books ship at a special subsidised rate of $9.95\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lard Ass Butter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48240631087269,"sku":null,"price":59.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0570\/4181\/3669\/files\/EmailImages.jpg?v=1788922197","url":"https:\/\/lardass.com.au\/products\/the-butter-book-by-monica-cavarzan","provider":"Lard Ass Butter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}