The Lie Of Caramelized Onions
OH MY GOD, I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ME
Rarely have I been as happy, as personally validated, to read a Slate story as this one: "Layers of Deceit: Why do recipe writers lie and lie and lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions?"
I only recently came to this whole "cooking food" thing. For the first, oh, 30 years of my life, I was strictly a processed and pre-packaged food gal. Lean Cuisine for lunch, frozen pizza for dinner, bag of pre-packaged salad (with all the fixins) as a healthy side dish. (What can I say? I was raised as a latchkey kid by a single mother who worked all day, then went to class at night to earn her MBA. My mom didn't have the time or energy to cook, and I certainly wasn't going to bother.)
