"Food blogger Goldstein (The Happy Sandwich) offers a mixed-bag collection of cooking hacks that promises to save readers dishes, money, and time. . . . Some ideas will appeal to college students without full kitchens (including a microwavable recipe for mac and cheese in a mug) or young adults learning to cook on a budget (for example, the tip to stretch ground meat by adding finely chopped mushrooms). . . . Some of the better tips, such as freezing vegetable peels and parmesan rinds for broth, are hardly secrets, though they may be unfamiliar to novice cooks. Readers who value efficiency above all and who don’t mind relying on single-use products (common in the dish-avoiding section) may find value."