Salon s Mary Elizabeth Williams and Ashlie Stevens contributed to this story.
Including our relationship with food. Together, the Salon Food editorial team and our readers turned to baking our way through survival. For us, food provided certainty in an otherwise uncertain world.
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Salon s own Ashlie Stevens captured our return to the kitchen early on in the pandemic. It was back to the basics, including bread making:
I ask a friend who has picked up baking again since working from home about why she s turning to it now. She gives an answer that is consistent with what other people have told me, and with what I feel. What we lack in stability right now, we have in extra time. While we may desire more certainty about the world around us, we can at least be nurtured by the belief that we ll be eating dinner at home tomorrow night.