Tag: soup
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The dude cooks: Chicken soup and a hard encounter with the cycle of life
$35 a week. That’s all the money I had to feed myself and, often, my sons while I waited for my divorce to be final. I was paying the bills on a house I’d never live in again, scraping by on what little was left. I hadn’t cooked in a long time — my soon-to-be-ex was a fabulous…
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The dude cooks: Hamburger soup, Grandma, and the Great Depression
My grandmother told me often while I was in college that before I graduated she’d teach me “Depression cooking” — ways she learned during the Great Depression of making meals and dollars stretch as far as possible. “You won’t make much money at first,” she said. “You’ll be glad to know this.” Grandma passed away before she could…