- Author: Deepa Srivastava
Growing up in a traditional Asian Indian household, home cooking was a part of the daily routine and a cultural practice. At the time, acquiring cooking knowledge and skills was an expectation and considered normal. When I moved to the United States, I added new knowledge about diverse cultural values and norms surrounding food and home cooking practices.
Today, with millions of people nationwide facing stay-at-home and social distancing guidelines, home cooking has found new meaning for many families. Navigating through this new normal, I feel blessed to have the cooking knowledge and skills that empower me to cook basic pantry food items into diverse cultural food recipes from across the world. Thanks to my family for keeping...
- Author: Mary E. Reed
Perhaps you, like me, have found yourself amused and bemused as you have made your way through the refrigerator and frozen food sections of the local grocery store, and observed the proliferation of pre-made food options. Items such as already hard-boiled eggs, breakfast burritos, frozen chunks of cooked chicken meat, vacuum sealed marinated tri-tip, and mini-hamburgers nestled in buns all vie for attention in freezer and refrigerator spaces. Pancakes stacked up in neat little towers were my favorite “you must be joking” moment, to be swiftly followed by a bit of melancholy that so many of us don't take the time to cook much any more.
As we all know, the benefits of preparing fresh food at home are myriad. Alas, the time savings...