Building upon her bestselling The Modern Pioneer Cookbook, Mary Bryant Shrader returns with her second cookbook, The Modern Pioneer Pantry, a comprehensive guide to preserving food using time-tested methods.
Update: Yay! The Modern Pioneer Pantry celebrated its official publication date on August 19, 2025. You can find it at your favorite bookstore or online retailer.
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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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Table of Contents
Modern Pioneer Pantry Videos
Get to know The Modern Pioneer Pantry book in the following videos.
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 115 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.
If you’ve already ordered my second book, thank you! You’ve helped give my cookbook and traditional foods momentum in the marketplace. 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 Cookbook series is new to you, in addition to ordering 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! 😊
Please Leave a Book Review
Can you help me keep the momentum going and also introduce others to home preservation and traditional recipes?
If you can please take a few moments to leave a review of my book on the website where you purchased my book, such as Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Books-A-Million, Target, etc., I would so appreciate it! Your five-star review will give my book a boost and encourage booksellers to recommend my book to other readers and home cooks.
You can also leave reviews on social book sites, such as Goodreads.
Your five-star review of my book will help promote home preservation and traditional foods to others!
Note: I’m sorry if your book was damaged during shipment or if you were expecting a signed bookplate at the same time you received your book, but please don’t let that affect your review or rating of my book. If you have a damaged book, please let your retailer know, and I’m confident they will send you a replacement. If you requested a signed bookplate when you preordered by book, please know that it should arrive to you within five weeks.
🎤 My Book Tour is Coming!
Stop by and visit with me, and be sure to pick up a few signed copies of The Modern Pioneer Pantry for your family and friends. They make wonderful birthday and Christmas presents for your favorite homecook!
📍 Saturday, August 23 – San Antonio, TX – 2:00 pm–3:00 pm
San Pedro Crossing Barnes & Noble
321 NW Loop 410, San Antonio, TX 78216
📍 Tuesday, September 10 – Austin, TX – 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Arboretum Barnes & Noble
10000 Research Blvd, Austin, TX 78759
📍 Saturday, October 4 – Decatur, GA – 10:00 am – 10:45 am ET
Presentation followed by a Book Signing
Decatur Book Festival
First Baptist Church, Carreker Hall, 308 Clairemont Ave, Decatur, GA 30030
📍 Tennessee in October – dates coming soon!
📍 And more destinations to be announced soon!
If you’re nearby, I’d be honored if you’d stop by so we can share a hug, swap a few stories, and, of course, talk about traditional foods.
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 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.