home eco-nomics for the rest of us
When did cooking just plain rice get to be so fraught? An ancient food, eaten in many of the world’s poorest places, people have been making rice for centuries. Wait, millennia. And they’ve been making it in circumstances that most of us (with indoor water …
(to accompany this essay also on Huffington Post): Sometimes a dish of beans and rice is just the thing, the just thing. I live in Charlottesville, plenty famous enough, thank you very much, without the white supremacist rally mid-August that catapulted our town into national news. …
Imagine. August 12, 2017. Charlottesville, Virginia. Imagine with me an alternative day. Early morning. The dawning sun eases its light down Water Street, the pedestrian Mall, Market Street. It’s quiet, as usual. But something happened overnight. Where there had been none before, banners sweep across …