Courtesy of Mindy Meyers
In-person camps relied on careful spacing this year, but for Cooking Round the World, expanded online programming reached a new breadth of campers, extending beyond the Bay Area.
It took a sprinkle of spellworking, but a crew of young sous-chefs descended the peaks of Morocco, hovered over Cambodian rice paddies and surveyed the blue domes of Greece from their humble kitchens at home.
Armed with ladles and whisks, the Cooking Round the World campers made the most of this past year’s captivity at home. The year-round sessions, which began in person in the Bay Area pre-COVID and have expanded to include online participants from as far away as Ohio, New York and New Jersey, take young people on a field trip for their palates.
Decision making is exhausting. What if I get other people to make them for me?
The opening line to this piece got way more complicated than I anticipated.
I wanted to quote a statistic on the number of decisions individuals make a day, so, of course, I googled it, and the number that came up was 35,000.
That seemed a bit high. I went a little further down the search results and there was a link to a discussion about that number. Hello Google rabbit hole, I’ve come to visit you. To summarize: The accuracy of that stat is contested; no one can find the source for it.