The State of American Food

Well, the big publishers are betting on this topic. This month Alfred A. Knopf is releasing Robert Paarlberg’s Resetting the Table: Straight Talk about the Food We Grow and Eat…

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Cooking in a Bedsitter

Cooking in a Bedsitter

I learned to cook in a ‘bedsit.’ A bedsit, as bedsitters were generally called, was the English equivalent of an American efficiency apartment. Well, kind of an equivalent. Although bedsits…

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“A Good Cook:” A Pandemic Reflection On My Mother’s 104th Birthday

“A Good Cook:” A Pandemic Reflection On My Mother’s  104th Birthday

I felt mulish today. Six months with one meal away from home. No outing further than 30 miles. Seeing friends and family only in constrained circumstances. Enough, enough. Time for…

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