In World War I, soldiers got "trench rations" of "hard bread," beef, salmon and sardines but scant vegetables.
Policies that helped provide cheap bread, beef and poultry to help middle-class families afford new cars and college tuitions had a high cost for rural Americans.
2. Combine the bread, beef, eggs, garlic, pecorino, parsley, toasted pine nuts, 1/2 teaspoon of the salt and the pepper and mix with wet hands.
Ms. Kriger says the cuisine will be "Californian-Mediterranean, served with lots of nostalgia": chili con carne with corn bread, beef goulash, moussaka, fish and even some Asian-inspired dishes.
Alongside recipes inspired by Marcella Hazan and England's Mediterranean neighbors (gnudi, mussels stuffed with mortadella, carta da musica with bottarga), appear Anglo-Saxon classics like potato bread, beef-and-blue-cheese pie, trifle, liver and onions, "faggots" (baby-fist-size packets of pork cheeks), and Eton mess.
Instead of bread, the beef is sandwiched between two tostones, or bright-yellow fried plantains.
Good sources: Milk, cheese, wholemeal bread, lamb, beef, scallops, and prawns.
Soda bread, corned beef, lamb stew, cabbage and potatoes are some of the other predictable foods.
Glossy brick walls and plate-glass storefronts are the modular components for countless restaurants, and without a single atmospheric cue, you can barely tell whether you are sitting down for corn bread, corned beef or a pedicure.
Once the ill-gotten sauce was simmering, I combined wet bread, ground beef, garlic, parsley, grated Pecorino Romano, raisins, pine nuts, eggs, bread crumbs, salt, and pepper into a meaty paste, which I rolled into clumps about the size of racquet balls.
After soaking our sore muscles, we ambled to the dining room, lit by candlelight, and had a delightful meal of molasses bread, American Kobe beef and a bottle of warming Châteauneuf-du-Pape.
