Tag: cooking

Steak dinners were a frequent occurrence at my house growing up. As a kid who was privileged enough to come of age in a two-professional-income household, I did not realize the expense of steak versus other meat choices. I understood my father loved steak: he enjoyed picking the cuts...

I didn’t really start learning how to cook until my father died. This is not to say that in the first 22 years of my life I hadn’t prepared food before. I can vividly remember being overjoyed when my mother taught me at the age of six how to...