My mum used to make chicken and rice on the nights she was too tired to think. And I used

My neighbor knocked on my door last spring holding a bag of jasmine rice and a look of complete defeat.

My mum used to say the best dinners are the ones that don’t need explaining. You put them on the

There’s a specific kind of silence that happens when a meal is really good. Not awkward silence — the other

You bought it Thursday. It’s Saturday. There’s maybe two-thirds of it left, wrapped in foil in the back of the

My friend Donna made this for a potluck two winters ago and I genuinely asked her for the recipe before

My mum used to say that a good chicken and rice dinner is proof that you don’t need money to

My husband said “chicken and rice again?” and I almost cried. Not because it hurt my feelings — because he