Instant Pot Time Machine

The Audacious Book Club Essay Contest Winner

At the end of Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Bite by Bite, she offered a series of writing prompts and we invited our readers to write essays inspired by one of those prompts. This essay, “Instant Pot Time Machine” by Taj Zaidi, was the winner, chosen by Aimee herself.

Taj is a Bengali-American writer who grew up nomadically and now lives in Northern Californi…