--- description: The Truth About Home Cooking Bestselling food writer Mark Bittman makes the case that eating at home is good for your health, good for your... title: TIME Magazine The Truth About Home Cooking image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt673c8befb86ea0d8/69875f51cd68482f96096eda/final-food-cover.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Health](/section/health/) ## Health Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # In The Latest Issue (9 Oct 2014) by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 9, 2014 11:13 AM CUT  Photo-illustration by Andrew B. Myers for TIME by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 9, 2014 11:13 AM CUT [**The Truth About Home Cooking**](http://time.com/3483888/the-truth-about-home-cooking/ "undefined") **Bestselling food writer Mark Bittman makes the case that eating at home is good for your health, good for your family—and, with the right approach, far easier than you think** [**Mark Bittman’s Whole Roast Chicken**](http://time.com/3484276/mark-bittmans-whole-roast-chicken/ "undefined") [**Mark Bittman’s Vegetable Soup**](http://time.com/3484278/mark-bittmans-vegetable-soup/ "undefined") [**Mark Bittman’s Skillet Pear Crisp**](http://time.com/3484279/mark-bittmans-skillet-pear-crisp/ "undefined") [**The Future of Food: Experts Predict How Our Plates Will Change**](http://time.com/3482452/future-of-food/ "undefined") **Foodies and futurists on vertical gardens, low-carbon fridge stocks and more solutions** [**A Troubled American Moment**](http://time.com/3483899/a-troubled-american-moment/ "undefined") **As conspiracy theories abound, voters are uncertain about what to believe** [**Banking by Another Name**](http://time.com/3483891/banking-by-another-name/ "undefined") **Traditional lenders aren’t doing their job. Enter a raft of startups to do it for them** [**Ebola Panic Goes Viral**](http://time.com/3483901/ebola-panic-goes-viral/ "undefined") **America is in panic mode over Ebola and Enterovirus D-86\. That’s human nature —but it’s hard to battle an epidemic from a crouch. Here’s how managing fear can give us an edge over disease** [**The Paperless Classroom is Coming**](http://time.com/3483905/the-paperless-classroom-is-coming/ "undefined") **A national push to get a computer into each student’s hands will upend the way American children are taught** [**A New Generation Speaks in Hong Kong**](http://time.com/3483920/a-new-generation-speaks-in-hong-kong/ "undefined") **The city’s protests may be waning—but the battle for democracy will continue** [**The Culture**](http://time.com/3483890/the-culture/ "undefined") [**Pop Chart**](http://time.com/3483912/pop-chart/ "undefined") [**Robert Duvall and Robert Downey Jr.’s New Father-Son Act**](http://time.com/3483894/robert-duvall-and-robert-downey-jr-s-new-father-son-act/ "undefined") **The Judge casts the leading actors in a family affair** [**Bill Murray’s Bad Saint**](http://time.com/3483919/bill-murrays-bad-saint/ "undefined") **The actor gets a heart transplant in the hokey St. Vincent** [**Review: Stars’ No One Is Lost**](http://time.com/3483897/review-stars-no-one-is-lost/ "undefined") **The high-risk, high-reward Canadian group releases its seventh album** [**Gina Rodriguez’s Happy Accident**](http://time.com/3483902/gina-rodriguez-happy-accident/ "undefined") **The actress may be the biggest miracle in Jane the Virgin** [**Kerry Howley’s Fighting Words**](http://time.com/3483906/kerry-howleys-fighting-words/ "undefined") **One writer’s journey through the world of mixed martial arts** [**Meet the Computer Age’s Original Minds**](http://time.com/3483916/meet-the-computer-ages-original-minds/ "undefined") **Walter Isaacson’s new book celebrates unlikely pioneers** [**Brain Builder**](http://time.com/3483911/brain-builder/ "undefined") **Creating the world’s smartest artificial mind** [**The App Fueling Hong Kong’s Protest**](http://time.com/3483903/the-app-fueling-hong-kongs-protest/ "undefined") **FireChat lets users communicate even when they can’t get online or send text messages** [**Why We Just Might Avoid a Climate Catastrophe**](http://time.com/3483900/why-we-just-might-avoid-a-climate-catastrophe/ "undefined") **Do worry. But here are the reasons to be happy** [**On Becoming a Better Feminist**](http://time.com/3483914/on-becoming-a-better-feminist/ "undefined") **Like many celebrities, I support #HeForShe. I just needed some help getting my message out** [**10 Questions with Jennifer Garner**](http://time.com/3483892/10-questions-with-jennifer-garner/ "undefined") **The actor talks about what she does on the Internet, sex ed and beating Ben Affleck at the box office** [**Conversation**](http://time.com/3483895/conversation/ "undefined") [**Briefing**](http://time.com/3483898/briefing/ "undefined") [**World**](http://time.com/3483910/world/ "undefined") [**Milestones**](http://time.com/3483917/milestones/ "undefined") [**Marian Seldes**](http://time.com/3483893/marian-seldes/ "undefined") **Star of stage and screen** [**Nobel Prize**](http://time.com/3483904/nobel-prize/ "undefined") **Discoverers of “brain’s GPS”** [**Little Peace in Sight for Ferguson**](http://time.com/3483896/little-peace-in-sight-for-ferguson/ "undefined") [**In Nobody’s Playbook**](http://time.com/3483908/in-nobodys-playbook/ "undefined") **Three high school football players die within a week** [**Who Is Khorasan?**](http://time.com/3483909/who-is-khorasan/ "undefined") **Simple: al-Qaeda** [**Age-Proof Your Muscles**](http://time.com/3483913/age-proof-your-muscles/ "undefined") **New research pinpoints the ideal moves to protect the male body as it ages** [**A Tale Of Two Viruses**](http://time.com/3483889/a-tale-of-two-viruses/ "undefined") **Ebola and enterovirus D68 have Americans on edge. Here’s how the government is trying to contain them** [**The Contest Behind the Election**](http://time.com/3483918/the-contest-behind-the-election/ "undefined") **A flurry of changes to ballot laws opens old wounds** ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3484300/in-the-latest-issue-9/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3484300/in-the-latest-issue-9/"},"headline":"In The Latest Issue (9 Oct 2014)","datePublished":"2014-10-09T11:13:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T20:05:01.205Z","description":"The Truth About Home Cooking Bestselling food writer Mark Bittman makes the case that eating at home is good for your health, good for your...","url":"https://time.com/3484300/in-the-latest-issue-9/","keywords":["Cover Story"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt673c8befb86ea0d8/69875f51cd68482f96096eda/final-food-cover.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt673c8befb86ea0d8/69875f51cd68482f96096eda/final-food-cover.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"How to Eat Now Home Cooking Mark Bittman Time Magazine Cover 141020","caption":"How to Eat Now Home Cooking Mark Bittman Time Magazine Cover","creditText":"Photo-illustration by Andrew B. 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