![]() ![]() San Diego recently banned encampments on public property. Newsom has helped clear homeless camps himself and has told mayors he was trying to set an example. In California, Democratic leaders who previously tolerated homeless camps have lost their patience for the tent villages and blocks of trailers that proliferated during the pandemic. The state makes up about 12% of the country’s overall population. Nearly half of the nation’s unsheltered population - those who sleep on the streets, in tents, in cars or in other places not intended for human habitation - resides in California, according to last year’s federal tally of homelessness. What happens after the closure of Wood Street and other camps in California will serve as the latest test of how effectively the state is addressing homelessness. But such sites are often unsanitary and dangerous, exhausting neighbors and the owners of nearby businesses. As homelessness has surged, more people have congregated in large encampments for some semblance of security and stability. The evictions have brought into sharp relief one of the most intractable challenges for American cities, particularly those in California. Gavin Newsom in particular - decided last year to clear the camp because of its hazardous debris and fires. More than 200 people lived there until California leaders - and Gov. Stretching several blocks in West Oakland, the Wood Street encampment became a community for those who had little else. He lived in a structure of recycled wood and corrugated iron attached to a trailer, ensconced in a thicket of other such structures and vehicles. “It’s not my home,” said Janosko, 54, who lost his job as a chef, and then his apartment, about a decade ago. He had to get rid of most of his belongings and says he has barely slept there. He says he does not have keys to the free cabin that the city has temporarily assigned him. City officials consider the shed-size unit - with a bed, a folding chair, a desk and a mini fridge - a vast improvement over the makeshift shelters that once sat beneath a freeway. Sign up to receive the What to Cook newsletter and get no-recipe recipes every Wednesday.OAKLAND - John Janosko recently moved into a tiny cabin in Oakland, California, after the city and the state shut down the sprawling homeless encampment where he had resided for most of the past eight years. ![]() ![]() What follows are some highlights from our archive of them, suggestions for things you might cook yourself, without a recipe. It’s a way to improve your confidence in the kitchen and to make the act of cooking fun when sometimes it seems like a chore.Įvery Wednesday for the past four years, I have published on The New York Times one of these no-recipe recipes. Indeed, cooking without recipes is a kitchen skill same as cutting vegetables into dice. I think of these recipes as sheet music, a form of notation that allows home cooks to recreate the cooking of others.īut I don’t just cook with recipes, and I am not alone. These recipes take a particular form: a list of ingredients followed by step-by-step directions for how to use them. As the food editor of The New York Times and the founding editor of NYT Cooking, I spend a lot of time laying out strict instructions for how best to prepare specific dishes. ![]()
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