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Campbell's new Go soups hits the supermarket shelves next month. I might give it a try.
Be careful of the ones with mescaline in them.
Campbell's new Go soups hits the supermarket shelves next month. I might give it a try.
But quinoa is really good. I really like grainy stuff like quinoa, bulghur, couscous and barley.
But quinoa is really good. I really like grainy stuff like quinoa, bulghur, couscous and barley. The latter is very traditional here, but coming as I do from an area with plenty of immigrants of non-Scandinavian origin (which here also equals 'low income'), I've always eaten food from all over the world. I never saw 'exotic' food as posh or 'artisanal' since I learned about it from (decidedly un-posh) people I knew. While trendy here these days, there is nothing ridiculous or inherently fancy about, say, Ethiopian cuisine (my grandparents used to live there so I grew up acquainted with injera and wot). Likewise, something like nam plaa may sound fancy-pantsy but it's also a staple in the kitchen of Thai rice farmers...
be careful of the ones with mescaline in them.
“Americans still eat a lot of industrial bread — 1.5 billion loaves of it in 2009 — but there has been a marked cultural turn away from the stuff,” Bobrow-Strain, a professor of politics at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash., writes in an e-mail. “Some of that has to do with health consciousness, and a lot of it has to do with changing status consciousness.” He calls white bread “an icon of poverty and narrow choices in the age of yuppie foodie-ism.”
icans still eat a lot of industrial bread — 1.5 billion loaves of it in 2009 — but there has been a marked cultural turn away from the stuff,” Bobrow-Strain, a professor of politics at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash., writes in an e-mail. “Some of that has to do with health consciousness, and a lot of it has to do with changing status consciousness.” He calls white bread “an icon of poverty and narrow choices in the age of yuppie foodie-ism.”
I remember when I mom first began to buy margarine. I believe the main reason for it (in my house) was because it didn't tear up the bread when spread.
It is kind of odd that the processed foods are now considered poverty foods when the more rustic breads and non-processed foods were really the poverty foods in the past.
The thing that really makes me laugh out loud is that people pay good money for canned fiddleheads -- the sprouts of ferns that we've been scrounging from the woods for generations. They taste like boiled lawn clippings, and I've never understood what the big deal is about a food we only ate when there was absolutely nothing else available, other than the fact that it's considered "exotic." Pfft. Have some dandelion greens while you're at it, they're exotic too.
Dandelion greens are great with a salad
The thing that really makes me laugh out loud is that people pay good money for canned fiddleheads -- the sprouts of ferns that we've been scrounging from the woods for generations. They taste like boiled lawn clippings, and I've never understood what the big deal is about a food we only ate when there was absolutely nothing else available, other than the fact that it's considered "exotic." Pfft. Have some dandelion greens while you're at it, they're exotic too.
I was brought up on margarine.......but switched to butter when I reached adulthood.