Good and Cheap is a free/donation-based ebook filled with recipes geared toward helping you eat on $4 a day — which is the average amount SNAP (food stamp) recipients have to spend.
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Aug 1, 2014
Fantastic cookbook of extremely inexpensive meals
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Vintage photos of L.A. restaurants that were shaped like the food they served
With L.A.’s iconic Eddie Blake’s Tail o’ the Pup hot dog stand set to reopen, LAist posted a brief photographic history of the city’s fantastic history of “‘programmatic architecture,’ buildings designed to look like food, animals or other items.” “LA’s Awesome History Of Weird, Food-Shaped Restaurants” (via NextDraft) images: Los Angeles Public Library Collection
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How rainbow sprinkles are made
From Food Insider: Rainbow cake sprinkles have been around since the late 18th century, when French candy chefs used them as decorations. Today, liquid food coloring, shortening, and sugar are mixed in hot water to form the sprinkle’s colorful dough. Long strands of the dough are broken into the tiny shapes we see on cakes, […]
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We're going to be eating bugs really soon now, again
Whether or not you've ever chosen to eat insects, you've eaten insects, or parts of them, in the grains, legumes, fruits and nuts you've consumed (not to mention the occasional inhaled kamikaze mosquito).
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Learn your next language faster with Mondly's AI-powered lessons
From self-driving cars to Siri, we’ve already gotten a taste of what AI can do, and now this groundbreaking technology is making its way to education and revolutionizing the way we learn new languages. Mondly uses state-of-the-art speech recognition to help you speak foreign languages like a true local. Lifetime subscriptions are on sale for […]
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Become Your Work's Excel Master with These 3 Courses
We’ve all used Excel at some point in our careers, but chances are most of us have only scratched the surface of what this ubiquitous program can do. From automating simple tasks to presenting data through beautiful charts and PivotTables, Excel brings a ton of utility to the table that can make a huge impact […]
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These noise-cancelling headphones are perfect for travel
Traveling isn’t always the most comfortable experience, but at least you have your music to keep you company on those long flights. That is, until your chatty neighbor and that crying baby three seats over drown out your playlist. These Paww WaveSound 3 Noise-Cancelling Bluetooth Headphones block up to 20 decibels of audio, so you can […]
