History is rich with the food of the poor.  The recipes that arose out of exigency are pragmatic, judicious and, very often, deeply delicious.   Nothing satisfies me more than taking the most simple and inexpensive foods and coaxing unexpected flavor from them. It is with this is mind that you can only imagine my excitement upon learning about Leather Britches, a  magical and transformative method of preserving and then reconstituting beans: “To make leather britches, you string pole beans—like […]

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