Cast of Wonders 418: So Much Cooking• Author:
Naomi Kritzer• Narrator:
Diane Severson Mori• Host:
Katherine Inskip• Audio Producer:
Jeremy Carter• Artist:
Alexis GobleSo Much Cooking originally appeared in Clarkesworld, Issue 110, November 2015.
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Content Warning: Pandemic
Carole’s Roast Chicken
This is a food blog, not a disease blog, but of course the rumors all over about bird flu are making me nervous. I don’t know about you, but I deal with anxiety by cooking. So much cooking. But, I’m trying to stick to that New Year’s resolution to share four healthy recipes (entrées, salads, sides…) for every dessert recipe I post, and I just wrote about those lemon meringue bars last week. So even though I dealt with my anxiety yesterday by baking another batch of those bars, and possibly by eating half of them in one sitting, I am not going to bake that new recipe I found for pecan bars today. No! Instead, I’m going to make my friend Carole’s amazing roast chicken. Because how better to deal with fears of bird flu than by eating a bird, am I right?
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