Community center class: Yes, You Can Actually Cook

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"Starch," Eliot said, as soon as it looked like they had all the students they were going to get, this week. There was still a large pile of vegetables on the front desk, and diced up waiting for the students at their work stations. There would always be a large pile of vegetables in this class. No one -- in Eliot's culture at least, and he was guessing several others, too -- ate enough vegetables. "It's cheap. It's filling. It's just nutritious enough to keep you going in a tight spot. There's a reason why various starches show up as staples in pretty much every region of Earth. Today we're going to deal with two of the more popular ones worldwide: noodles and rice."

( What, no potatoes? )