The Anti-Aristocratic Thanksgiving Meal
Here I am with my annual reminder about how unusual American Thanksgiving is as a national meal. As nations were created from the eighteenth century on, all kinds of readily…
Read moreFive 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 moreGood as Far as It Goes, But It Doesn’t Go Far Enough: Nigella Lawson’s Defense of Home Cooking
Nigella Lawson, for readers who do not live in the English-speaking world or who do not follow cookbook trends, is an extremely smart, capable and hardworking Englishwoman who for the past…
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