"The notion that there is a permanent way out—a hack, a kit, a service that gives you all the benefits of dinner cooked from scratch without the labor—is an illusion. You cannot have a meal that both is and is not homemade..." www.theatlantic.com/health/archi... - ThreadSky

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torrleonard.bsky.social • 83 days ago

"The notion that there is a permanent way out—a hack, a kit, a service that gives you all the benefits of dinner cooked from scratch without the labor—is an illusion.

You cannot have a meal that both is and is not homemade..."

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/01/weeknight-dinner-never-easy/681210/?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ_zH5luyn75m3p4wQ5Q7lFY

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unsubtly.bsky.social•83 days ago

Making dinner as I read this. Talk about timely.

just-1-g.bsky.social•82 days ago

I hear what you're saying. In argument and yet in agreement, my hack, my mother's hack, leftovers. In fact I cook large enough scale that I eat at least a couple of meals as well as freeze a couple.

Still doing the work, but not today; today's an easy dinner.

btflotsam.bsky.social•79 days ago

This reminds me of something I heard mentioned in the Effective Altruism forums: having food in the real world is always about trade-offs, whether it be with health, pleasurable eating, time, cost or animal welfare. This was said specifically about how vegans claim near-universal health benefits...

btflotsam.bsky.social•79 days ago

but was stated in such a way that implied massive potential for generalization. Here's the thread:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/3Lv4NyFm2aohRKJCH/change-my-mind-veganism-entails-trade-offs-and-health-is-one

torrleonard.bsky.social•83 days ago

"Dinner resists optimization.

It can be creative, and it can be pleasurable.

None of this negates the fact that it is a grind.

It will always be a grind."

torrleonard.bsky.social•83 days ago

"You will always have to think about it, unless you have someone else to think about it for you,

and it will always require too much time or too much energy or too much money or some combination of the three."

torrleonard.bsky.social•83 days ago

"It is unrelenting, in the way that breathing is unrelenting.

There is freedom in surrendering to this, that even in this golden age of technological progress, dinner refuses to be solved."

peterlio.bsky.social•82 days ago

This was such a great piece!

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