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Americans are still pinching pennies, and some of that budget cutting is happening in our kitchens. But spending less on food doesn't have to mean sacrificing quality or taste. Centuries of effort in cultures around the world has gone into creating delicious, inexpensive and surprisingly healthy peasant cuisines.

I'd never thought of Condoleezza Rice as a diamond kind of girl. A string of pearls is more her thing, I'd assumed. Either I was wrong, or Condi's going to have to make a very quiet trip to a jeweler to exchange the $200,000 diamond ring in a wooden box given to her by Colonel Muammar Abu Minyar...

Every day, WalletPop will be bringing you information about a fantastic freebie. Like what you see? Check back tomorrow for more!So this is sort of a bizarre promotion but here's how it works: You answer vocabulary questions (They start easy and get tough) and, for every question you answer, a few...

Prices for the big carbohydrate commodities -- wheat, corn, rice -- have all exploded. But one starch remains relatively cheap: the potato. That's why the U.N. and agriculture scientists are starting to push the potato as the new cheap starch for the masses. Happy International Year of the Potato,...

Every day, WalletPop will be bringing you information about a fantastic freebie. Like what you see? Check back tomorrow for more!OK, so you probably wouldn't rush to your Netflix account to add a DVD about "the world of rice" to your queue. Still, a DVD about the many different kinds of American...

If you've kept a close eye on the news over the past couple of months, you might have noticed a disturbing trend. Around the world, climatologists and other analysts have been making dire predictions about a dawning rice shortage. More recently, the shortage seems to have arrived, with prices...