Gourmet on the cheap

Food magazines change their menu for hard times.  Out are the fancy, high-margin ingredients, and in with the bulk bins and leftovers.  Ruth Reichl of Gourmet Magazine states that people need to learn to cook again.  A lot of the folks I know haven't ever cooked at all, let alone come up with a food budget. The new economy is making us confront home economics as a national emergency for the first time this century.