By Evan Kleiman
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According to Bookscan, 200,000 more bread cookbooks sold in the U.S. in 2020 than in 2019.
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We’ve been basically close to home for almost a year. When we first went into lockdown, the shock of needing to feed ourselves at home by ourselves took awhile to understand. Some of us bought enough beans for the next millennium. Others went to Costco and bought suitcase-size boxes of cereal. In the end we retreated to our kitchens and dug in. A year later, we can trace what we made a few ways, one of which is to look at what cookbooks we bought as a nation.