A cloth-wrapped cover of the book "The Practical Cookbook" by Howard. An illustration of a soup bowl with a spoon is below the title.

American readers with an interest in #cooking, hear me out - I have a proposal!

I know that the next few years are going to suck a lot for anyone who is not a TechBro billionaire and their chosen cronies. Which means that a lot of people have to get rather thrifty with their dwindling finances.

Which brings me to my idea: There are a _lot_ of old cookbooks in the public domain - published during WWI, the Great Depression, and other times - which focus on "economic" or "thrifty" cooking.

Thus, a writer with relevant interest could revisit all those recipes, update them for the modern area, and publish them together with economic analysis of what aspects of meal preparation were cheap and which were were pricey then, along with what makes them pricey _now_ - including how late-stage #Capitalism screws the consumer over!

The end result would be a book that combines advice for thrifty cooking with increasing political awareness in these trying times! How does this sound for a book idea?

#USPolitics #writing #WritingCommunity #history

Sources for the covers:
https://archive.org/details/war-cookbook-for-american-women
https://archive.org/details/practicalcookboo00howa
https://archive.org/details/food-economy-images
https://archive.org/details/left-overs-13

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A cloth-wrapped cover of the book "The Practical Cookbook" by Howard. An illustration of a soup bowl with a spoon is below the title.

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