I want to encourage people to cook. I want them to think about what they stock to cook with. I intentionally left what’s in the pantry open exactly because there is so much variation. I keep emergency goat cheese on hand. Others keep nori. What do they have or normally have that they can use to make a meal out of the featured ingredients.

I don’t want to have an endless list of restrictions. I don’t want to tell people what they should have in their kitchen. That removes all the fun. It’s people, their foods, the featured ingredients, their imagination.