True, cooking has always been one of my favorite pastimes, but I’m no stranger to a takeout menu. Many of my favorite recipes are inspired by my favorite restaurant foods. That being said, the prospect of cooking at home can seem so bland when compared to a regimen of professionally prepared meals seven nights a[…]
Food for Thought
As a quick addendum to yesterday’s post regarding my own mother’s experience living through the Great Depression (and then post-WWII Levittown), I found this statistic from the USDA’s Economic Research Service quite interesting. Apparently, Americans are spending less and less of their disposable income on food – and more and more on more “disposable” items.[…]
The Great Recession
My mother, Liz, is a remarkable woman. At 84 years old, she still works five days a week, manages a house, drives, cooks, never forgets a birthday and shops with the best of them. As a younger woman, she also managed to raise six children on a very inconsistent budget. Growing up, sometimes we were[…]