The Modern Pioneer Pantry

Building upon her bestselling The Modern Pioneer Cookbook, Mary Bryant Shrader returns with her second book, The Modern Pioneer Pantry, a comprehensive guide to preserving food using time-tested methods.

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Published by Penguin Random House/DK, this book empowers you to create a well-stocked pantry filled with homemade, nutritious staples, reducing reliance on processed foods and embracing traditional preservation techniques.

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Fill Your Pantry, Save Money, and Eat Healthier

Whether you’re a novice home cook or an experienced preserver, The Modern Pioneer Pantry offers detailed instructions and over 100 professionally tested recipes to help you build your home pantry and embrace a self-sufficient, healthy lifestyle.

What’s Inside

  • Canning and Preserving – Master water bath and pressure canning to extend the shelf life of your produce.
  • Pickling and Fermenting – Explore the art of pickling and fermenting to enhance flavors and boost gut health.
  • Dehydrating and Drying – Learn methods to remove moisture from foods, making them lightweight and shelf-stable.
  • Freezing Techniques – Understand best practices for freezing a variety of foods while maintaining quality.
  • Four Corners Pantry Approach – Implement Mary’s unique system to ensure a balanced and nutritious pantry.

Plus, each chapter also includes a scannable QR code that links to instructional videos on the Mary’s Nest website.

Already a Best Seller!

Update: Wow! Thanks so much for propelling my new cookbook to the top of the Amazon Best Seller lists! I am grateful for all of your support!

If you’re building your own Four Corners Pantry and stocking it with healthy foods, The Modern Pioneer Pantry is the perfect cookbook for you. And if you preordered my book, thank you!

Preordering my book helps build momentum, and retailers will recommend my book to other readers and home cooks interested in starting their traditional foods journey. You’re helping more people build traditional pantries and make traditional recipes!

If the Modern Pioneer book series is new to you, in addition to preordering my second cookbook, you can also get my first bestselling book, The Modern Pioneer Cookbook. It’s already on the shelves of your favorite retailer. Both books would make beautiful additions to your kitchen library. They’re more than just cookbooks; they’re manuals on how to build a traditional foods kitchen…and pantry, too!

I’m so happy that I’ve been able to be with you since 2018, creating YouTube videos on nutrient-dense recipes, stocking your pantry, and more. Thank you again for being on this traditional foods journey with me! 😊

Limited Time Special Offer: Signed Bookplate

If you’ve preordered The Modern Pioneer Pantry, thank you! For a limited time, you can request a signed bookplate for your copy of my latest cookbook. (I’m going to personally sign every bookplate!)

The Modern Pioneer Cookbook

If you’re starting on your traditional foods journey or want to learn how to make nutrient-dense foods, like bone broth, cultured dairy, sourdough, or more, be sure to get a copy of my first bestselling book, The Modern Pioneer Cookbook.

The Modern Pioneer Cookbook Curriculum

The Modern Pioneer Cookbook Curriculum is an educational companion to my first cookbook. The free curriculum provides comprehensive lesson plans to teach traditional food recipes and kitchen techniques to students in grades K-12. This curriculum is over 250 pages!

About the Author

Mary Bryant Shrader

Mary's Nest with Beef Bone Broth Jar

Mary Bryant Shrader is the bestselling author of The Modern Pioneer Cookbook and The Modern Pioneer Pantry. She’s a self-described “former New York City girl” who discovered the simple life with her husband in the Texas hill country. She’s a modern pioneer in the kitchen who has spent the last twenty-five years teaching friends and fans alike how to make nourishing recipes using traditional methods and whole, seasonal ingredients. Her mission is to teach her followers how to make nutrient-rich meals using traditional “pioneer” techniques like fermenting, canning, and drying.

On her Mary’s Nest YouTube channel and website, she provides detailed instructions for teaching traditional cooking techniques, such as making bone broth, sourdough bread, cultured dairy, rendering animal fats, and soaking and sprouting grains. Fans of Mary’s have come to love her encouraging, helpful demeanor and her familiar way of greeting every viewer with her “Hello, Sweet Friends!” salutation.