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生活在物质条件充裕的现代社会，年轻一代也许根本体会不到物资匮乏的岁月，老一辈如何勤俭节约、合理利用剩饭剩菜。生活水平提高的同时，我们仍然不能舍弃勤俭节约的传统，更何况，“剩饭剩菜”也可做出许多新的花样…… I read with interest recently about restaurants releasing videos to showcase their wares. So when my teenage son came into the kitchen as I was preparing dinner and said, derisively , “Leftovers, eh?” I wondered, if trailers for restaurants are tempting our palates, what marketing miracles could we perform with yesterday’s warmed-over supper? When I was growing up in the 1960s there were no ATMs, no 24-hour grocery stores and few restaurants open on Sundays. Our parents remembered the Depression and the austerity of wartime. If you were between pay cheques or didn’t get to the bank on Friday, you had to eat what you had. Even during the week, there was no running out to grab a ready-made meal: The most interesting things in the frozen food aisle were Salisbury steak and Tater Tots. No, back then you had to man up and open the fridge. Add to this the fact that we ate a lot less then, so if you cooked a chicken on Sunday, you could bet you would be eating the rest of it on Monday. Our mothers (forgive the sexism, but women prepared most of the family meals in the Sixties) were the ultimate spin doctors. They never used the word “leftovers.” | 
