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Vittles 6.10 - Parental Cooking

#MamaWangsKitchen, by Jessica Wang; Feeding my toddler my childhood, by Molly Scanlan

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Vittles
May 15, 2020
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In the last newsletter I mentioned Olivier Roellinger’s definition of a great chef, and the image he invoked of the maternal instinct. Of course a restaurant chef, no matter how hard they try, can ever replicate the cooking of a mother (or a father, or nanny, or whoever it was who cooked your daily meals). It’s simply too entangled with our childhood me…

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