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HOWEVER YOU DEFINE
                    “SURVIVAL SITUATION,”                 MOTHER KNOWS BEST            and clothes on our backs. My mother was
                THERE ARE TWO COMMON                       When I was growing up, money was   an expert at making every red cent count.
                         FACTORS EVERYONE                 tight. There were five of us kids, and my   But what she really excelled at was
                SHARES: THE NEED TO EAT                   parents worked very hard to make sure   cooking. She was an expert at making
                                                          we had everything we needed.
                                                                                       something out of nothing. Nothing
                          AND THE DESIRE TO                Notice I said, “everything we needed,”   went to waste, and some less-than-
                              EAT GOOD FOOD.              not “everything we wanted.” We had a   desirable things were made not only
                                                                                       edible, but also tasty.
                                                          roof over our heads, food in our stomachs

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          ASG-1710-COOK.CX.indd   86                                                                          7/19/17   7:07 AM
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