Cooking
Put a platter of sour cream pancakes with cardamom apples on the table and watch everyone happily dig in.
Good morning. How are you doing? It’s a weird, uncertain time for many, parlous and dizzying, and sometimes it seems as if the last thing anyone wants to do is gather to eat and talk, to try to understand one another, to commune.
But it’s exactly what we ought to be doing, as often as we can, as enthusiastically as possible. A meal taken with family, with friends, even with (perhaps especially with) strangers is a meal that can bridge distances, that can make things better, if only while everyone’s seated at the table.
Hospitality matters. That’s my new bumper sticker. Come over for breakfast, and let’s see if it sticks. Say, sour cream pancakes with cardamom apples (above)? It’s incredible how the cardamom pings off the maple syrup to become something entirely singular. Or a big Dutch baby with a side of oven bacon? Works every time.
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I could imagine a crowded table at lunch: kimchi grilled cheese for all, and the Seahawks-Falcons game afterward, viewed from the couch. Could that spill into dinner? Let’s hope so, because a huge platter of chicken with mixed mushrooms and cream isn’t going to eat itself.
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