Skadden Raises to... 190K Food Stamps?
A Washington Post article about members of Congress trying to live on $21 a week -- the average amount food stamp recipients receive as income supplements -- features a source you wouldn't expect to see quoted in such a piece:
Rick Hindle, executive chef for the Skadden, Arps law firm in Washington, showed recently that you don't have to spend hours in the kitchen to prepare healthful food for $1 or less per meal....As part of the launch of a new USDA Web site for food stamp recipients, Hindle cooked colorful quesadillas (60 cents per serving), spinach and meat cakes with brown rice (92 cents) and orange banana frosty (52 cents)....
Hindle, who trained at the Culinary Institute of America, plans to add the quesadillas and some of the other recipes to his regular repertoire.
Guess the Skadden summer program in D.C. doesn't match up to New York. There's a big difference between an "orange banana frosty" and a flute brimming over with Cristal.
How Far Can Your Dollar Stretch? [Washington Post]
Comments
"Meat Cakes" is precisely what I'm talking about.
Posted by: ASSCRUSHER | June 19, 2007 10:36 AM
I can has meatcake plz? TksOKbye!!1!
Posted by: Anonymous | June 19, 2007 10:37 AM
Ham sandwich, no cheese, under $1.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 19, 2007 10:38 AM
WG love the AG's orange banana frosty.
Posted by: Chef wgwag | June 19, 2007 10:39 AM
i'm gonna be honest. those recipes actually sound decent if you can actually make them that cheap. for anyone whos interested heres the link to the nutrition guide which contains the recipes.
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fsn/Loving/GuidebookHabitsBW.pdf
Posted by: Anonymous | June 19, 2007 10:50 AM
There hasn't been a summer associate of the day for a LONG time now. Are there just no good summer stories floating around?
Posted by: anon | June 19, 2007 10:55 AM
Any truth to rumor that Skadden raised to 70k clerkship bonuses?
Posted by: anon | June 19, 2007 11:08 AM
When will someone take up the important iPhone issue in associate compensation?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118221943189139997.html?mod=hpp_us_at_glance_most_pop
Posted by: anon | June 19, 2007 11:33 AM
The COL in Portsmouth turns that $21 into $5.75--Bangle Bangle Bangle better raise or I'm eating Raman 3 times a day for the next 40 years.
Posted by: Fast Eddie P. | June 19, 2007 12:06 PM
Hey, 12:06, that was your choice to live in downtown Portsmouth. Those of us in Piscataqua or across the river in Kittery are doing just fine.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 19, 2007 12:20 PM
If you are food stamps do you have the ability to go online and find these recipes?
Posted by: anon | June 19, 2007 12:31 PM
If you are food stamps you are inanimate. That would prevent you from going online, yes.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 19, 2007 12:45 PM
12:45: brilliant.
SGWQ - Yeah!
Posted by: SGWQ -- Skadden Guys with Quesadillas! | June 19, 2007 01:09 PM
Every branch of the NYC public library has computers with free internet access.
So, yes, even [people receiving] food stamps can go online and find these recipes.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 19, 2007 01:33 PM
members of congress arent bout it
Posted by: Anonymous | June 19, 2007 02:10 PM
I'm on food stamps and the gov't cheese is gooood.
Posted by: anon | June 19, 2007 03:54 PM