My Parents Had a Style of Cooking That Was Efficient, Reliable, and Adequate. We Could Really Benefit From It Today.

Food My 1980s Norwegian Cooking Experiment Exhausted by the pressure to craft beautiful meals from scratch every night, I looked to my childhood kitchen for a simpler approach. Turns out Mother (and Father) may have indeed known best. Aug 29, 202611:00 AM Photo illustration by Slate. Photos courtesy author and by Getty Images Plus. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. It started one night, in the deepest of winter, when I made myself two fried eggs and called it dinner. I had kale wilting in the fridge and aspirations to make stew with beans, coconut, and fresh turmeric; past me had planned out my week’s meals to be fun and nutritious. But it was late and I was tired, and on that hungry Thursday evening