Browsing Posts tagged food

Rice is one of the easiest things to cook, but many people are afraid of it because they’re turned out overcooked soggy mushy rice in the past, and don’t know how to fix that. The problem is that there are so many recipes available for such a simple thing, and all of them are different. [...]

I have some basic recipes in this blog – here’s how to cook rice, and here’s one for making Indian style black beans. It’s my attempt to make cooking approachable to someone completely unfamiliar with cooking. This is the state in which I found myself some years ago, when I first moved out of the [...]

This line of thought was provoked by an article I read talking about the importance of cooking food in the development of modern humans. I’ve come across a number of articles that talk about the importance of a change in diet in human evolution. The theory is that human diet suddenly improved dramatically, and this [...]