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“Chefs on a Shoestring” Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo are used to making do with less, and they share their secrets for low-cost gourmet meals in their new cookbook, “Two Dudes, One Pan.” They tried to make a three-course delight with only $40.

Busy Food Network chef Guy Fieri prepared some, with great sides, on The Early Show.

As readers know, I spent labor day weekend hanging around at Slow Food Nation in San Francisco, taking in the talks, as well as the blackberry mint coolers and masa cakes of change for an improved future food system in America. It was a celebration of food but also a virtual manifesto that brought out 60,000 like-minded and/or curious, hungry folks to partake in the various events, from music, to tastings, to idea-sharing.

Food for Thought got down and dirty with the food policy discussion, featuring the biggest names in food, notably Wendall Berry, Carlo Petrini, Vandana Shiva, Michael Pollan, and Raj Patel. I confess, I’m a wonk. So I took it in like a succulent meal, taking furious notes and even writing a breakdown for the Slow Food Nation blog for day 1 and day 2.

I’m featuring above the video for the panel on the world food crisis, which was the opening star-studded talk at Food for Thought. FORA.tv was there for all of the talks, which are slowly but surely becoming available on their website. I highly recommend the panel on climate change and food, and the Slow Food Nation panel featuring Wendall Berry, who if you couldn’t tell by now is my food warrior hero. I even waited in an hour-long line to have him sign my copy of The Unsettling of America (a prescient book of essays about our culture and agricultural policies, published in 1977). Berry was humble, but everyone sharing the stage with him had taken inspiration from his writing. He said he felt a change coming, alas. When I met him I shook his hand and let him know that our generation was taking him up on that. I hope to be proven correct.