The corn is at the point where you can eat a kernel raw off the cob and understand it.

Five dinners, each standing on its own. Wednesday is the week's project and the reason I wrote the week the way I did.

Buy the okra even if you have never liked okra. Especially then.

Thirteen weeks. One trip Monday, ten minutes of sauce — and this one you have to feel happen under the whisk.

Four nights, four cuisines, one set of leftovers that becomes a fifth dinner

The cast iron and Dutch oven do most of the work. Every dish lands between 25 and 45 minutes.