Comments on: Cheap Tuesday Gourmet – with help from our friends

By: Pig`s Heads and Boars Heads: The Importance of Cooking and Sharing them « Well Preserved

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:07:28 +0000

[...] two points – dishes like these were the gourmet meals of many poor economies and cultures. Lobster was also once seen as the food of the poor while SPAM was elevated as high-class. On the journey to return to real ingredients, tying in [...]

By: Taste T.O. – Food & Drink In Toronto » What’s Cooking – Tuesday, March 2nd

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:27:21 +0000

[...] digging this post not so much for the recipe but for the analogies of making due in tough times. We've got a lobster for spam story in our family history too, so the point about perspective is a [...]

By: CallieK

CallieK — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:25:37 +0000

Thanks for the shout out Joel!

One way to make this even more local that I didn’t think of till now- You can pickle nasturtiums seed pods to make ‘poorman’s capers’. I believe there’s recipe for them in Gayla’s new book!