The cookbook legend on food anxiety, the joy of family dinners and why she has ‘absolutely no time for’ protein shakes Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email “The single biggest problem with food, for people who don’t love good food, is anxiety,” says Stephanie Alexander as she nestles in a comfortable wicker armchair in the dappled light of her riverside garden. “They’re anxious about what’s good for them. They’re anxious about how much of it to eat or how not to eat it. They’re anxious about everything about it. They don’t feel comfortable handling it, they don’t feel comfortable starting to prepare it because they don’t know what to do with it … And that’s where The Cook’s Companion comes in, of course.” Continue reading...