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Over the past few months, there has been an increasingly fervent plea for someone to step up and be the voice of home cooks. Or, the voice calling more home cooks into the kitchen. Amanda Hesser begged it of First Lady Michelle Obama; Michael Pollan waxed poetic on Julia Child and those forgotten days when home cooking was not so outrageous an everyday activity (in turn, becoming said home cooking prophet himself to an extent); Kerry Trueman said she thought Lorna Sass is the home food-heroine to preceed Julia Child; and now, this The Atlantic writer wants Oprah Winfrey to be the one to influence a new generation of home cooking much in the way she made people read.
Oprah, you can chill out a moment. This is my stage and I’m trying to get ready…
