Chef James Beard is a hero of mine. His prose is clean, content-rich, and full of wry opinion. He honored history and tried to be an Everyman. Beard’s manifesto in favor of ham as party food changed me forever.
Imagine my pleasure, then, when I learned he’d written a cookbook entitled, How to Eat Better for Less Money. I opened the book to discover an entire chapter devoted to the concept of an “Emergency Shelf.”
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