Saturday, October 17, 2026

🍲 Cuisine

The Rule of the Single Good Ingredient

French home cooking is not elaborate. It is one very good ingredient, correctly handled, surrounded by things that get out of its way. Complexity is usually a way of hiding mediocre produce.

Cook one dish this week with four ingredients or fewer. Spend what you would have spent on the other six on making one of the four significantly better.

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