Beef Makrouna has long belonged to those dishes you don’t question. It does not justify itself, it does not announce itself: it asserts itself. It is prepared when you need to feed quickly, feed well, feed several people without turning the meal into an event.
Pasta, a sauce, a bit of meat, a few vegetables. A familiar mechanism, almost automatic.
That is precisely why it now serves as an indicator. When a dish as ordinary as this becomes visibly more expensive, it is not only the cooking that changes. It is daily life itself that shifts.
