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• Poverty brings out the best in consumers...and cuisine!
  

  Filed under: Frugal Food, Vegetables, Recipes, Fruit, Pork, How To, Did you know?, Comfort Food, Retro cookery, Meat

  As the ongoing recession/inflation/credit crunch drives the cost of food higher and higher, British chain Sainsbury's has begun working to minimize food wastage. Meanwhile, ever-increasing numbers of consumers are cooking from scratch in an attempt to stretch their food budgets. Clearly, thrift is back!
  
  As you rush around in your search for cheap things to eat, it's worth remembering that, in the kitchen at least, poverty can definitely be the mother of invention. Although cheap gas, greenhouse...
  



• The best groom's cake ever
  

  Filed under: On the Blogs, Bakeries, Meat

  
  Having worked in a bakery setting since I was 18, I've seen my share of groom's cakes. Actually, I had never heard of the groom's cake until I started working in a bakery. Most of them are chocolate cake with a golf or foot ball theme. My best friend's groom went with a caramel cake, which was very delicious. This one really takes the cake, though.
  
  The Black Widow Bakery came up with the best groom's cake I've ever seen. There's not even any fru-fru cake to ruin the manliness of it. It's a meat cake. The layers...
  



• Midnight Sausage: British Columbia
  

  Filed under: Beef, Pork, North America, Meat

  
  
  Honeymoon photos from British Columbia. From Flickr user sneaky monkey's Flickr.
  
  I'm posting images of sausage counters the world over each weeknight (and occasionally weekend) witching hour until I run out. Please use the comments section to post links to your Flickr or personal site faves, and perhaps you'll see 'em posted here late some evening.
  
  Previously-- Midnight Sausage: Ipercoop Supermarket, Italy
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  Think you can tell cotto salami from Dutch loaf or summer sausage? Prove you're not just full of baloney with AOL Food's Cold Cuts ID Quiz, then come back to share your score.
  
  Cold Cuts ID Quiz
  
  Read what my Dad had to say about lunchmeat a while back.
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• Midnight Sausage: Ipercoop Supermarket, Italy
  

  Filed under: Beef, Pork, Europe, Italy, Meat

  
  
  Preserved meat counter at an Ipercoop supermarket in Italy. From Flickr user cary b's Flickr.
  
  I'm posting images of sausage counters the world over each weeknight (and occasionally weekend) witching hour until I run out. Please use the comments section to post links to your Flickr or personal site faves, and perhaps you'll see 'em posted here late some evening.
  
  Previously-- Midnight Sausage: Donaueschingen, Germany
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  Donaueschingen, Germany. From Flickr user krossbow's Flickr.
  
  I'm posting images of sausage counters the world over each weeknight (and occasionally weekend) witching hour until I run out. Please use the comments section to post links to your Flickr or personal site faves, and perhaps you'll see 'em posted here late some evening.
  
  Previously-- Midnight Sausage: Launceton. Cornwall
  
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• Double-smoked bacon
  

  Filed under: Pork, On the Blogs, America, Comfort Food, Meat, Artisan Foods, Guilty Pleasures

  
  
  Gourmet's Ian Knauer has bacon on the brain ever since a fateful foray into one of Greenpoint, Brooklyn's omnipresent Polish groceries. The specimen in question is double-smoked, non-brine injected belly meat, has roots in the former Eastern Prussia, and is sold in Germany as Geräucherter Speck. Looks insanely delicious, no?
  
  Mr. Knauer is also pretty certain that one's personal selection thereof over all other bacon formats is a potential indicator of, well, he's not entirely certain, but if nothing else, this meat-based emotional indexing is a lot...
  



• DIY Foods: Making homemade sausage
  

  Filed under: On the Blogs, How To, Meat

  I am a big fan of sausage, especially the kind you buy in bulk (as opposed to the stuff that comes in casing). I use it as the protein/flavor base for egg scrambles, pasta sauces and stews. However, despite my love for ground, highly seasoned meats, I've never actually tried to make it on my own (I like to leave tasks like that to the professionals).
  
  On Monday, Culinateposted a piece by Matthew Amster-Burton that's got me thinking that maybe I should change my ways and start experimenting with homemade sausage. I...
  



• The Oregonian in 60 seconds: Grilling, green beans and anytime eggs
  

  Filed under: Vegetables, Newspapers, Eggs, in sixty seconds, Meat

  
  
  • With gas costing in excess of $4 a gallon, Diana Morgan (author of Grill Every Day) goes off in search of grillable cuts of meat that cost $4 or less a pound. She comes up with Skirt Steak, Argentine-Style, Grilled Southwest Chipotle Chile Chicken, Grilled Sweet Corn, Black Bean and Cherry Tomato Salad, Espresso-Cardamom-Rubbed Pork Chops and Korean-Style Grilled Short Ribs.
    
  • In addition to all that helpful information about grilling, the FoodDay staffers serve up a wealth of information about making the noble burger....
    
  
  
  
  • A showcase of meaty headware
    

    Filed under: On the Blogs, Meat

    
    When I was in the fifth grade, I went through a phase where I wore hats to school everyday. I had a beloved felt fedora I picked up at a thrift store, a wide black hat (I think it would look a little Amish to me now), a huge straw hat designed to shield your face from the sun at the beach (my teacher made me take this one off, as it blocked my classmates' view of the chalkboard) and a burgundy one with a black ribbon (which made me feel like an English school girl).
    
    What I did not have...