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Shanghai Jazz in Madison has rolled out a great new website. Or rather, it’s new to me. I don’t know how long it has been live; I abandoned looking at the old one a while ago, as the schedule was very difficult to read. It’s nice to see Shanghai Jazz finally has a website that reflects what a great establishment it is.

In a thought-provoking article on The Huffington Post, “Too Busy to Cook: The Dismantling of a Culture,” Elissa Altman questions, “what…keeps the average Us from getting into the kitchen and cooking with some degree of care and thoughtfulness whenever we choose to eat at home?” Good question.

The piece is inspired by Michael Ruhlman’s comments made at this year’s IACP Conference, and his excellent blog post which I wrote about in January (along with instructions for the easiest roast chicken ever).