Five Reasons Why Home Cooking Should Go the Way of the Dodo: 1903 and 2018
Becoming a home cook was the last thing I wanted to do growing up. In those days, marrying meant embarking on cooking almost every day of the week. If you…
Read moreWhy I Happily ‘Waste’ Food
Food waste is presented in moral terms. It’s bad, even a sin, to waste food. This is a terrible way to frame the issue. Not wasting versus wasting is…
Read morePure and Simple? Cheese and Ghee
Almost exactly a hundred years, in 1917, in Calcutta in India a controversy flared up about ghee (clarified butter). There ghee is no ordinary foodstuff. It is a wondrous golden…
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