In our compressed and stressed lives, we’ve grown dependent on getting our food faster than microwaves, and carry-out has become the cooking method of choice. Because we have mastered the art of carry-out, the current need to cook has people scrambling through supermarkets for ingredients in dust-covered cookbooks or mentioned in forgotten instructions in a grandmother’s kitchen. Behind toilet paper, cooking staples like flour, sugar, cornmeal, dried beans, and cooking oil have disappeared.
As a grandmother who cooks, the emails, texts, and calls for cooking help has been fun. There have been requests for ideas what how to cook the chicken or do a new thing with it. Some want my bean soup recipe. Others have called for breakfast ideas, baking cakes from scratch, and ways to use oodles of noodles. The need to feed has given seniors access to the lives of their children and grandchildren as ignored kitchen skills are being requested. With technology and distractions of extracurricular activities on hold, something as simple as baking cookies has become an adventure in many households.
Yes, cooking has always been more than making a meal. It was a crossroads of family history and family values. It set the stage for family worship as we gave thanks.
Thank God for the Q3 Gift of cooking, giving us back our families.
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