By Lynette Hazelton From The Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia—Take an onion, Jonathan Deutsch explained. Spend some time with it, thinking carefully what you could do with it. Or with fish bones. Or broccoli stems. “Think about the potentiality of every item,” Deutsch said. This is not a culinary Zen exercise. It’s a start to handling your…

It is a sad fact that most folks under the age of 60 don’t remember how to make homemade chocolate pudding from scratch. Boxed pudding was introduced to the American public during the processed food explosion that gained momentum after WWII ended. The incredible ease of making instant pudding by just emptying a box of…