Make Pot Roast Even Better than Mom’s - No. 82

My four secrets, plus why M.F.K. Fisher would have loved my pot roast

It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. - M.F.K. Fisher. The Art of Eating.

I’ve spent decades perfecting pot roast and wondering why my mother didn’t make a better one.

She could cook her way through our garden of summer ve…