The Atlantic
On recipes, spontaneity, and time: Your weekly guide to the best in books
Naz Deravian, the author of the cookbook
Bottom of the Pot, grew up in a family that shunned recipes in favor of spontaneous cooking an attitude that initially impeded her effort to write a cookbook. However, as she wrote in an article for
The Atlantic, the specificity and certainty of following a recipe eventually became a source of comfort for her, especially as she grappled with national and personal stressors.
Even for those who are not facing such upheaval, recipes can be reassuring safety nets. Spontaneity has become a glamorous ideal in the food world (see, for example, the editor Sam Sifton’s recent work
When Did Following Recipes Become a Personal Failure? Laura Shapiro
This article was published online on March 14, 2021.
Last spring, early in the pandemic, the host of a radio food program called to ask whether I thought the lockdown would catapult women back to the 1950s. That sure looked likely: Families were home demanding three meals a day, and most of that food was coming from their own kitchens. I started wondering whether the pandemic would succeed where years of cajoling on the part of cookbook writers had failed. Maybe we really had been launched into a new era of cooking from scratch, and would see people joyfully plying their families with homemade grain bowls long after the return of recognizable daily life.
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It’s weird to think that this is the same winter during which I’ve complained about the lack of cold and snow and overall winter-ness. This week Mother Nature decided to show us that, yes indeed, winter is real and it’s
spectacular. Not only have the temps been somewhere between
Ice Station Zebra and freezing, we’ve had a parade of storms.
There’s another one due this Sunday, and then more on Tuesday. A few inches expected with each one, though the TV meteorologists haven’t been exactly on-the-nose with their forecasts. There’s so much technology, so many fancy mobile weather vehicles, so many computer models (European! American! That other one!) that it just confuses everything. When you give all of the possible weather outcomes, you’re really giving none.
Merry Christmas 2020: Wishes, images, quotes, status, greetings, messages, and photos
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