Item

Relearning to Cook

Title (Dublin Core)

Relearning to Cook

Disclaimer (Dublin Core)

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Description (Dublin Core)

I have loved to cook for as long as I can remember, but I had a few rough years and stopped cooking. With the onset of stay-at-home orders for the COVID-19 Pandemic, I went from 60-hour work weeks between my two jobs to nothing. My mind and hands were itching to do something, anything. As many of the grocery stores started to have supply shortages and I now had a much more limited budget; I had to get creative. So, I began to cook. I started slowly with fancy coffee drinks and eggs and moved to bread and pasta. Nationally people were baking bread so I thought well I’ve got the time I might as well try. What started as something I had learned to dread suddenly became my day’s highlight. I was cooking again! The dance of moving through my small kitchen. The clank of pots and pans and knives and wooden spoons in metal bowls playing in time to Otis Redding. The joy of tasting a recipe and nailing both the flavors and the serving size (many recipes serve 4-6, I live alone). It was truly a full-body experience. I soon realized that I hadn’t repeated any meals in about two weeks and decided to challenge myself to go as long as possible without repeating a recipe, if a meal required a repeat that portion simply didn’t count in my tally. I ended up making over 225 different recipes.

Date (Dublin Core)

August 8, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Self

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Molly Earp

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

text

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Emotion
English Home & Family Life
English Food & Drink

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

cooking
relief
joy
impact
learning
chef

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

sensory
sensory history
food
cooking
love

Collection (Dublin Core)

Foodways

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Sensory history submissions and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Curatorial Notes (Dublin Core)

Leeban Cabdullahi
added date submitted, collection, curator tags, type, controlled vocabulary. Added event id; we added partner; we added disclaimer; linked to original assignment. Added to ASU item set. 08/30/2022. LC

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

08/30/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

08/30/2022

Item sets

Covid 19
Arizona State University

This item was submitted on August 22, 2022 by Molly Earp 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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Tags

food
cooking
emotion
living

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