Hey, upgrade listeners in honor of Back to Basics Week at LifeHacker, we're bringing you an episode from the archives that truly takes us back to our roots.

That's right. It's how to make dinner with Melissa Clark and Dave Arnold, because who knows how to make dinner anymore?

I don't know what I'm going to have for dinner tonight. Melissa, what do you think?

I'm going to have turkey chili because I made so much of it and it's all I eat.

And frankly, I'm not looking forward to it.

So I am also going to relisten to how to make dinner with Melissa Clark and Dave Arnold and get some ideas.

Yeah.

Let's start the show.

Okay. Hello. Hello and welcome to the upgrade, the podcast from the team at Lifehacker.com,

where we help you improve your life one week at a time. I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of LifeHacker. And I'm Alice Bradley, Lifehacker.com, where we help you improve your life one week at a time. I'm Melissa Kirsch,

editor-in-chief of Lifehacker. And I'm Alice Bradley, Lifehacker's deputy editor. And today we're talking about dinner, what you should make, how you should make it, and why the idea of dinner

is so fraught for so many of us in the first place. We're talking with Dave Arnold. Dave is the

founder and president of the Brooklyn

based Museum of Food and Drink. Dave's going to talk to us about how to cook faster and better

and how if you don't like cooking, you don't have to do it at all. There's a whole host of people

out there who do it just because they feel guilty. I think that's where it's like liberate yourself.

Like throw that piece of baggage away.

We're also talking with Melissa Clark,

who's a staff reporter for the New York Times food section.

Melissa's new book, Dinner in an Instant,

offers 75 recipes specifically designed for the instant pot,

which he'll be telling us all about.

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