Frozen Food’s New Wave
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In the 1990s, my childhood frozen-food dinners seemed precision-engineered for disappointment: gloppy Salisbury steak with a side of grainy mashed potatoes, a pile of limp fish sticks, a cardboardy personal pizza. Well into adulthood, I assumed that the most satisfying meal I could scrounge from the colder side of the fridge was a pint of Häagen-Dazs.