An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace

by Tamar Adler

A gently but sincerely cooked egg tells us all we need to know about divinity. It hinges not on the question of how the egg began, but how the egg will end. A good egg, cooked deliberately, gives us a glimpse of the greater forces at play.

Try poaching eggs directly in chicken broth.

In a world of things too big, getting peas from pods is a chance for pea-sized people to exercise authority.

Cows were designed to eat grass, not corn—which they’re fed in the factory farms that disgrace our erstwhile prairies.