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'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 she'll be telling us all about. With an electric pressure cooker, I can make a stew.

I can make, you know, I can make a soup.

I can make beans from scratch.

And having those options is what I really love.

But first on the line, we've got Claire Lower,

LifeHacker's food editor and the mastermind behind the Willett Suvide column.

Hi, Claire.

Hello.

How are you?

Okay, how are you doing? Doing all right. So talk to us about

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