On Monday afternoon, I stood outside for hours in the sweltering sun, waiting for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to teach me to cook. This struck me as worthwhile because the last time I saw him make food was on Instagram at Thanksgiving , when he popped outside—fully barefoot—and pulled a deep fried turkey from a vat of boiling beef tallow. “This is how we cook the MAHA way,” he’d said, and I found myself both terrified and intrigued.

You can imagine my excitement, then, when I got a press release advertising that RFK Jr. would host a live cooking demo at the US Department of Agriculture’s “ Great American Farmers Market ,” a weeklong celebration of our nation’s farmers to be held on the National Mall. The demo was part of “MAHA Monday,” highlighting the Make America Healthy Again mov

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