Tag: cheap food

Clara’s Kitchen – Wisdom, Memories, and Recipes from the Great Depression Review

Clara’s Kitchen – Wisdom, Memories, and Recipes from the Great Depression Review

A while back I wrote about my definition of the la cucina povera or the kitchen of the poor.  I view la cucina povera as a style of cooking centered on cooking with whatever, non bourgeois, ingredients are in the house.  My family in Calabria once cooked in the above manner (mostly due to economic reasons but also because what was “in […]

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Food Can Be Affordable and Taste Good: KathEats.com On A Great Food Life

Food Can Be Affordable and Taste Good: KathEats.com On A Great Food Life

My wife has been an avid reader of KathEats.com for well over a year and raves about her real world recipes and outstanding food photos.  Being a dyed-in-the-wool foodie I took my wife’s enthusiasm as a sign to visit Kath’s site and I had a mini-revelation: good, practical, food can, indeed, make you look and feel great!   As someone […]

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Cheap Eats: 4 Recession Proof Ingredients for Cooking at Home

Cheap Eats: 4 Recession Proof Ingredients for Cooking at Home

As I’ve said in the past, eating out/ordering in is a colossal waste of money and beyond the occasional breakdown or special night out I tend not to reach for the Chinese take out menu or make reservations at our local restaurant very often.  My other rationale for not eating out is that I simply will not get the same […]

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