The great challenge of post-industrial coleslaw is to cultivate happy, high-performing cabbages, carrots and creamy whole-egg mayonnaise. Prager’s Slaw headlines a family of ideas that shed new light on how to address this challenge. It begins with a single clarifying question:
How can we best sustain and scale side dishes?
The most exciting part about this approach to meal improvement is that you can start anywhere in your meal plan — you don’t have to be the big boss or even see the entire picture to initiate positive change — and the dish is intrinsically creative and collaborative: as you join forces with other flavour agents the effects compound powerfully.
What is Prager’s Slaw? Who is Chris?
“After you make a meal, the last thing you should do is more meal prep.”
Prager’s Slaw
Instead of reflexively demanding or volunteering to do more of the same work, we can use that freed-up time in a variety of intelligent ways.
The following articles begin to flesh out the details of the mechanism illustrated at the top of the page: the keys to starting, sustaining, and scaling side dish improvement.
- The Virtuous Cycle of Cabbage: Improvement in the small starts here.
- The Mayonnaise Lens: Virtuous cabbages not only improve deliciousness; they also boost morale.
- Carrot improvement is a lot like carrot interest — a farming metaphor.
- Feast improvement is not a given. Unless your organization respects Prager’s Slaw, small dishes will not compound at larger scales.
Getting started with Prager’s Slaw
Ready to put it into practice? Here’s an overview of how to get started with Prager’s Slaw by evaluating the situation, set up virtuous cycles of cabbage, and starting to implement and spread the saucy pattern.
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