Vicky Learns to Cook

There is this book from Cookery class called On Cooking. Once we were duly trained in culinary school at not killing each other with bacteria or knives, we got to start cooking.  I like having this book but it was gathering dust. I forget sometimes that it really is a source for all things food. I just spent the last few hours going back over it.  It's amazing all the sauces, for instance, that we can whip up, if only we had access to things like bones and marrow. Not living on a farm in France,  I'll have to search for where to get those later. I needed to make dinner soon.  Chicken was next on the "meat wheel" and... what you dont have a meat wheel? Well maybe not on paper, but you probably don't eat chicken every day of the week do you? No, you change it up, right? Beef one day, fish the next, maybe tofu or chickpeas if you are vegetarian or vegan.  Anyway, chicken was up next, but most things in the book called for something with leafy greens. If you've be...

If you watch TV, the kind with commericals not streaming, you start to see the trends in our society.   It feels like things are changing. Seems like we are headed toward going back to work soon and having gatherings. The whole lifestyle change due to a pandemic seems to be easing up. Ads on TV show women putting jeans back on to go in to work. And they show hundreds of ways to lose the weight many of us put on over the last year.  Like an underwatered plant given water again, I doubt things will be the same. Some people will probably forever be more careful, scarred by all the deaths of friends and family. They will wear masks longer and stand farther apart than before. A sneeze will get you the stinkeye. Life in person feels like it is chaotic.  Going back to work means only seeing half the people we saw before, as some will work from home most of the time if not all of the time. Or have left the job altogether. Or retired early. Or worse.  People tend to want...