Self-Taught Homework #10: I revolutionize my writing by describing food as food

Over the last ten weeks, you’ve written about food as a vehicle to discuss gift-giving, anxieties, patience, seasonal growth, and dead bodies.

The project builds week after week, none of it moving how you expected it. More questions accrue: have you ever properly cooked a chicken breast? how do you make paneer tikka masala? how do you roll sushi?

You’re not always conscious of technique, flavor profiles, or plating presentation in the real world. In fact, as much as you would like to think of yo...