What are we to do, in these moments of unsettling, upsetting news? We scroll our feeds, read endlessly
We attend to the children, to our parents, our friends. We consider history, ponder the future
We anger and worry, mourn and resolve, and then return to the scrolling, the reading, the listening
We try to understand: where we are; where we’re going; what it all means.
It’s weird to write that. Food doesn’t obviously have a role in our understanding of events playing out on the world stage.
Except that it does. We process news together, around tables, in the presence of those we feed
And when the food on those tables is made with care and served with affection