We’re exhausted by so much: anxiety, grief, employment worries, childcare issues, food insecurity, general uneasiness about the state of the world. You prepare food for yourself, for others, and in so doing achieve a momentary, fleeting reprieve. Cook with what you have, in what little or what great amounts, and you’re providing nourishment that goes well beyond the calories served. Cook what, you ask? Or this elegant pan-roasted chicken in cream sauce, which may call for morels but absolutely does not demand them?

Source: New York Times December 14, 2020 15:30 UTC