A Culinary Nightmare . . .

Here's an entertaining piece from The Washington Post, suggesting that America has become a nation of "culinary illiterates."

Hm. As someone who has had to have the fire department come twice for oven fires (once, back during my days in Washington, D.C., it even momentarily seemed that evacuation of my apartment building might be necessary), it would be great to find some of those basic cooking classes that the story references . . .

As for people finding 7-ingredient recipes optimal, well, I'm a 4-ingredient girl myself. It's just demoralizing to spend a lot of time preparing a dish that's devoured in one minute -- or even in 15.