In Touchstone Magazine, Emily Stimpson discusses the importance of food - good food, good meals - as part of a good life.

hat tip to Anna W.

Make your own bread.

My friend Stewart Lundy explains why making your own food is full of advantages and nearly free of disadvantages.

Among the advantages:

• Far cheaper

• Far healthier

• Far better tasting

• Frees you from relying on others for your food

• And the chicks dig it.

Kritik Magazine: "Reclaim the Kitchen"

Weekly food expenditures

This page gives photo examples of weekly food expenditures for families all over the world, including the $500 German food bill and food for eleven Egyptians at under $70.