28 Comfort Food Dishes Made for These Times
Between the impending election and the Covid upswing, it’s time to eat your feelings
A friend told me last week she celebrated her birthday in part by eating her annual ration of macaroni and cheese, around which she says she has no self-control. Mac’n cheese seems especially fitting for a year as shockingly bad as 2020 has been so far.
As if it hasn’t been challenging enough to manage emotions this year, we’re days away from an election in which the president has threatened not to leave office if he’s voted out, and the entire world seems to be experiencing an uptick in Covid cases.
How are you coping? Sure, there’s meditation, or yoga, or running. Or binge-watching Netflix. Or getting really good at a video game. Or playing the guitar. Or bird-watching. Or knitting and gardening. Or voraciously reading fiction. Or whatever it is you’ve been doing to quiet your mind and engage in something, anything, beyond the current state of affairs.
But let’s face it: Cooking has long been a go-to for managing stress (whether it works is another story, says the anxious cook). But I think it’s safe to say when it comes to eating feelings, it’s nachos over Niçoise salad, fries over frittata.
