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<em>The Atlantic Daily: </em>Our Quarantine Cooking Guide

As the coronavirus forces people to shop less and stay at home more, it’s time to rethink food consumption altogether.
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At my neighborhood grocery store, only the most odious pastas remain. The sight of cleared-out stores, once teeming with customers, has become a familiar one as people around the United States respond to the intensifying COVID-19 crisis.

As stores restock, and nationwide social-distancing mandates continue, Americans will need to reconsider their approach to not just grocery shopping, but also food consumption altogether. Maximizing any one ingredient (or meal) is even more urgent now, when food suppliers are struggling to meet the sudden surge in demand, but it doesn’t have to be prohibitively hard, or even boring.

To get you started, my colleagues and I put together thiswriters and editors who are as talented with a whisk as they are with a pen.

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