What’s not to love about a meal prepared from scratch at home? Well, a few things actually, according to Joslyn Brenton, co-author of the new book Pressure Cooker: Why Homecooking Won’t Solve Our Problems and What We Can Do About It. Brenton and her co-authors embedded with nine women to find out what it takes to feed a family today. They found that the expectation to return to the kitchen to solve the food system’s woes places an undue burden on busy parents. Tom talks to Brenton to hear more about the project. And assistant editor Yu Vongkiatkajorn makes some discoveries about what people mean when they use the word “authentic” in Yelp reviews.
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58 – How to Grow Your Own Cocktail
57 - Bonus: Introducing The Mother Jones Podcast
56 – What the Rajneeshee Cult Was Cooking Up
55 – This Is the Best Kind of Milk
54 – Did Drinking Give Me Cancer?
53 – When Sexual Harassment Is on the Menu
52 – This Is Your Dinner on Weed
51 – You Thought You Knew Spam. You Knew Nothing.
50 – The Year's Best Movies Are Secretly About Food
49 – It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Get an Ethical Cup of Coffee
48 – This Science Will Make You Feel Better About What You Eat
47 – Not Just Granola: How Hippies Reinvented American Cuisine
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46 – Dinner and a Movie
45 – Restaurant Workers Say #MeToo
44 – When Dinner Gets Awkward
43 – Robin Sloan's Hilarious and Bizarre Food Novel
42 – After Napa’s Inferno, “We’re Still Standing”
41 – Do Farmers Still Love Trump?
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