I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.

When we eat together, when we set out to do so deliberately, life is better, no matter what your circumstances.

Cooking is not about convenience and it’s not about shortcuts. Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ingredients has severed our lifeline to the satisfactions of cooking. Take your...