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The kitchen in a time of COVID-19 coronavirus

The kitchen in a time of COVID-19 coronavirus

First off, I hope everybody is safe. These are strange, scary times, upsetting all of our routines and challenging everything we take for granted. Among other things, it is refocusing the way we think about food. Sure, we think about ventilators and reproduction rates and 

Fresh vegetables are a blessing

Fresh vegetables are a blessing

Yesterday my true love, feeding my interest in food history, sent me a clipping from a British newspaper called “Woman’s World.”  It was an article entitled “‘Prepack’ Horizon” written by Rosemary Small and it opens thusly:  “In 1954 we bought 100,000 “prepacks” – food ready, cleaned