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Louise McCready: Recipe for the recession

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May 04, 2009

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"We're going to cook, dine, and eat our way out of these tough times." Host Susan Ungaro, president of JBF, said those words, and I wish Obama were at the JBF Awards tonight to hear that advice. Though cooking, and especially baking, can be frustrating, and bordering on failure, at times (I'm specifically thinking of the frequent fire alarms of my childhood signaling the fact that my mom was preparing dinner and the acrid smell of smoke during mealtime), cooking can also help solve a number of our nation's problems, from promoting good nutrition to staunch the rising cost of health care to breaking our nation's cycle of consumption by spending more time cooking at home.