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Forty-six published pieces
Planned Leftovers
Cook once, repeat less: planned quantities, second-meal transformations, freezer logic, and the economics of food that already has another job.
- Cook once
- Store it right
- Transform
- The economics
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Nuts Go Rancid Months Before They Taste Obviously Wrong
The bag from the back of the cupboard tastes fine on its own and makes everything it goes into taste faintly of old paint.
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Most Limp Vegetables Are Thirsty Rather Than Finished
A bendy carrot, flat lettuce and drooping herbs have lost water, not integrity. Thirty minutes in cold water brings most of them back, and knowing which ones will not is the other half of it.Newest first
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Someone Cancels at Six and You Cooked for Ten, and Most of the Damage Is Still Avoidable
The text arrives at ten past six. Two of them are not coming.
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The Half-Used Tin Is the Most Likely Thing in Your Kitchen to Be Thrown Away
Two tablespoons of tomato paste from a tin of six. Half a can of coconut milk.Fermenting Vegetables Is a Salt Percentage and a Week of Doing Nothing
The jar on the counter looks like a hobby with equipment attached.
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Buying Olive Oil Is a Question About Freshness, Not About Grade
Extra virgin. Cold pressed. First press. Single estate. Robust.
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Most Dates on Food Are About Quality. The Few That Are Not Are the Ones to Obey.
A yogurt three days past the date goes in the bin.
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A Stale Spice Is Not Dangerous. It Is Absent.
There are twenty-six jars in the cabinet and six of them get opened.A Sandwich Is an Engineering Problem and the Bread Is Load-Bearing
Made at the counter and eaten standing up, it is one of the best things anybody eats all week.
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A Dinner Party’s Leftovers Are a Different Problem From a Weeknight’s
It is eleven o'clock.
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The Freezer Is a Second Pantry and Most Households Run It as a Landfill
At the bottom of the drawer there are four bags of something brown, none of them labeled, at least one of them from a season nobody can name.
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