Onions are the ur-vegetable, mentioned in the Bible and the Quran. The Egyptians revered them, seeing eternal life in their concentric rings. Jains won’t eat them, believing that, along with
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This time of indefinite imposed isolation is an out-of-body, out-of-time, out-of-reality experience. We have all the time in the world. Only a few weeks ago that would have seemed like
There are two meals that can be made with anything or nothing at all – and I made them right away. The global flu pandemic has blown away many of
“I’m a dump-and-stir cook.” That is my mother’s deceptively self-deprecating description of her style. Self-deprecating because she is not-so-secretly proud of her dump-and-stir-ness, implying as it does a down-Maine disrespect
It was not obvious that I would become a cook. As a child I was fat at a time when there were no nice words for it, and eating was