Perhaps the strangest thing about living through a crisis is how much stays, relentlessly, normal. There are already 120,000 people in the world infected with this novel coronavirus, and those are only the cases we know about. But this number is an abstraction. I cannot grasp the magnitude of the problem—not the grandmothers and uncles …
Essay
When Lauren Stein contacted me and asked if I wanted a copy of her new book, Fresh Made Simple, I immediately said yes. I knew it featured simple recipes made from real food, which is how I cook on an average day, but I didn’t know the form that these recipes would take. It’s a …