In the farm kitchens of central Illinois and southern Iowa in the early 1970s, dinner had a hard deadline. Chores ended at dusk. Children came in hungry. Nobody was consulting a magazine. The skillet was already on the burner. What those cooks understood by necessity, not by design was a set of techniques that professional kitchens would spend the next two decades trying to … [Read more...] about How 1973 Farm Kitchens Solved the Weeknight Problem Better Than We Do Now