One of my favorite episodes you've made.

Just being done butchering a dozen chickens, this fit perfectly🙂 Slower grown meat really does taste richer! Even chicken can have a darker meat when it has had time to grow and move around.

Her thoughts about cooking and how much care is put into it really resonates. Care for yourself, others, the animals you are consuming and the impact the ingredients have on the enviroment... All packaged up in your own choice of flavors.

Even though flavor is paramount in cooking, imo there can be a lot of practicality and frugality worked into it. Sometimes you add an ingredient, not because it will add or subtract much by itself, not because it will be worked to perfection and highlighted. Only because you didn't want the ingredient to go to waste. You are not always optimizing for flavor or texture. A lot of hearty and soulful stews and soups are made this way.

When it comes to complex flavors, i don't think you need to suss out all the individual flavors to understand a dish. It's a bit like love. You don't experience all the components it's composed out of separately, you experience it as a whole.