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Remember the Old Economy? Things worked then. Steel didn't break. Refrigerators cooled food. A pound of wheat was a pound of wheat, and people could grind it into flour and eat it. A hamburger consisted of two buns and a patty of ground meat, and a cheeseburger was a hamburger plus cheese...
...soon discover that it's difficult to adopt a gluten-free diet. The protein is widely used as a thickener in soups, canned vegetables and other processed foods and often contaminates products made with oats. It also takes a while to get used to bread baked with flour made from rice, soy or potatoes (none of which contain gluten...
...furniture. The boys sleep on piled-up blankets, their few clothes dangling from nails. In the room that passes for a kitchen, two paraffin burners sit on the dirt floor alongside the month's food: four cabbages, a bag of oranges and one of potatoes, three sacks of flour, some yeast, two jars of oil and two cartons of milk. Next to a dirty stack of plastic pans lies the mealy meal and rice that will provide their main sustenance for the month. A couple of bars of soap and two rolls of toilet paper also have to last...
Next, I embarked on a 24-hour cinnamon-bun-baking marathon, blending some 11 cups of flour, six cups of sugar, a pound of butter and various other ingredients into an array of sweet treats. Martha Stewart's maddeningly precise and time-consuming recipe almost drove me to the pop-open cans, while AllRecipes' obtuse instructions and cake-mix ingredients struck me as suspect. I liked Epicurious' tip for using a sandwich bag with a hole in the bottom corner to drizzle on glaze like a pro, and found cooking.com's guidelines to be the most straightforward...
...Breakfast. Again, the decadence is in the preparation. First, the survey of goods: oranges, pears, eggs, various kinds of cheese and sausage, two kinds of flour, four kinds of sugar, appropriate spices, pots and pans of all sizes and appropriate machinery. Second, the slow and deliberate assembly (see #4). Finally, the open-ended consumption of the meal: half-an-omelette, walk the dog, read the paper, crepe, bubble bath, write a paper, walk the dog, hot chocolate with steamed milk, write column...