This weekend I’m in New York City visiting dear friends. Whenever I come to town, I am almost certainly guaranteed to partake of the following:
- lots of city walking;
- wonderful live music;
- absolutely dee-licious food.
We went to hear a jazz vibraphonist at this cool club in the East Village, and we also had a multi-course meal at Eulalie, a splendid French restaurant that is getting rave reviews. And in between events, my friends, who are marvelous cooks, made tasty meals for us. Yum!
One of the things I’m doing for myself in 2024 (I’m still working on my 24 things to do list) is shopping for and cooking more-satisfying and healthier-to-me food. It’s not easy for me, and I think it’s not easy for people in general. Especially when cooking 1) for others; 2) on a tight budget; 3) with limited time, putting out meal after meal that conforms to one’s ideas of healthiness, tastiness, preferences, etc. is a daunting undertaking.
Back in 2019, I reviewed the book Pressure Cooker: Why Home Cooking Won’t Solve Our Problem and What We Can Do About It. The authors interviewed a number of women who shopped for their families with limited financial resources. Take a look at what they found, and you can also see how that affects how we judge meals and people. Oh, and how we ought not to judge those meals and those people…
