The loss of culinary traditions I mentioned also includes the age-old habit of creatively re-using leftovers to make new things. Cook potatoes one day, grate th

The loss of culinary traditions I mentioned also includes the age-old habit of creatively re-using leftovers to make new things. Cook potatoes one day, grate the leftovers and make potato pancakes the next. In so many ways the vast generational shifts in food culture in countries like the US over the last century or so are a direct reflection of a dozen or more other social, cultural, and economic processes that have taken place in tandem.