Loud noises and Quiet Cooking

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Title (Dublin Core)

Description (Dublin Core)

There are two things that have marked this pandemic for me: sound and smell. He sounds of slammed doors from a very bored, angry, unsure ten-year-old boy and the smell of my late-night cooking.
As a 10-year-old, he felt set adrift, when schools closed, and he couldn’t go play with his friends and they couldn’t come here. How do you explain the concept of pandemic to a kid without scaring the crap out of them?
Because he was slamming the door to his room almost anytime he was spoken to, the dogs, of course, had something to say about it, because, well, they’re dogs. So, most of the day, there was slamming doors, constant barking, yelling (him), more yelling (me), crying (mostly me) and just really wanting some peace.
So, I began to cook. Stock, one of the first things I learned in culinary school. Tomato sauce. Pasta. Cookies. Bread, and no, I didn’t get on the sour dough band wagon. And I would do this late at night. When it was quite and cool. Filling the house with the rich smells of food. Meals that have been frozen, stock that has been frozen or canned, cookie dough stashed away to make cookies later. I could think while I cooked. It was and is, my de-stressor.
The picture is of one of my creations – “Ravioli Lasagna” – basically, using fresh ravioli (this is ricotta and spinach) as your lasagna “noodle”, layered with marinara, mozzarella and sweet Italian sausage.

Date (Dublin Core)

October 12, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Rebecca Kesler

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Rebecca Kesler

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

text story

photograph

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

Pandemic Thanksgiving

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Conflict

English Food & Drink

English Health & Wellness

English Home & Family Life

English Recreation & Leisure

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

noise

smell

stress

food

mother

child

cooking

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Arizona State University

HST 643

Sensory History

noise

smell

stress

food

Collection (Dublin Core)

Motherhood

Foodways

Mental Health

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Sensory history contribution to COVID-19 Archive

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

10/13/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

10/13/2020

Item sets

Covid 19

Arizona State University

Motherhood

This item was submitted on October 13, 2020 by Rebecca Kesler using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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