Simple Food

Photo by Johnny Martinez on Unsplash The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison. Ann Wigmore A friend sent me a chicken soup recipe that calls for 16 ingredients. Sixteen. Including ditalini pasta, whatever that is. (Okay, I Googled it. It's the pasta I've seen in macaroni salads.) I have a small kitchen, which means I don't store ten shapes of pasta. I don't store six kinds of flour. I don't keep 25 herbs and spices, since I'd probably use the same eight or nine all the time while the others just got stale. I don't want to shop for a bunch of ingredients, and I don't want to fool with washing, prepping, and measuring all of them. Simple food is healthier, cheaper, and easier. Michael Pollan, author of Food Rules: An Eater's Manual , suggests that we shouldn't eat