Article: Mothers of invention; Omelette with cheese & herbs; Huevos rancheros

Where there's an egg, there's a meal, says Kate Fraser . ------- ------------- The French concept of home economics - making maximum use of basic ingredients - is readily grasped in countries generally referred to as poor. Waste not, want not is a fact of life when every meal has to be made with what you can grow, find or struggle to afford. Doubtless it would be simpler to see food as nothing more than fuel and dish up the same concoction of beans, rice, eggs, fish, potatoes every day. But good cooks hate that. In every food culture there are always those who stand over the cooking pot, adding this or that, combining the familiar in unfamiliar ways, foraging for extras, and developing new ...

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