This is Recipe for Sleep, a podcast where we dust off very old cookbooks and let them lull us into dreamland. I’m Erin Brindley, a chef and storyteller. I was combing the shelves for an old cookbook that seemed appropriate for spooky season, and I came across “Quick Cooking: A Book of Culinary Heresies Written by One of the Heretics.” The concept of the cookbook is simple enough…it’s a precurser to Rachel Ray’s genre of quick meals for a busy Mom. But I love how the author, Flora Haines Loughead, frames simplifying complicated recipes as "Heresy" against the purveying idea that the more complicated the dish the more worthy a housewife. Then she goes on to suggest that, with the time you save by not making dinner complicated, you should rest. AMEN FLORA! Rest is resistance.