
Cooking comes home
If you’ve always wanted to bone up on your kitchen skills, this is your year to shine. With restaurants closing down or doing takeout-only service, and Americans spending much more time at home due to lockdown, there’s been a resurgence in home cooking. According to the International Food Information Council’s (IFIC) annual Food and Health Survey of 1,000 American adults, more than half reported cooking at home more.
Maybe you’re not a natural-born chef—that’s perfectly OK. The IFIC survey found that people are relying on packaged foods more than ever. But there are plenty of other shortcuts you can use in the kitchen to get a tasty meal on the table with less time, effort, and cleanup. Peruse these genius tips and let us take some of the stress out of stress baking for you.
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