Cooking Alone News Today

Here's the question. Being alone, how does one take care of themselves, food-wise, when they're quarantined with COVID?

Last modified on Sun 21 Feb 2021 14.48 EST There is much to devour in this month’s magazine. We have a dazzling set of recipes from Reem Kassis, author of The Arabesque Table. And gorgeous recipes they are. A butternut squash fatteh, chicken stuffed with walnuts, coriander and chilli, and a wonderful pistachio cake with a heady buttercream of orange blossom water. These are recipes that owe much to Kassis’s Palestinian background, and we have an interview with her, too. Ed Cumming has been...

Sat 20 Feb 2021 11.00 EST I don’t live alone now. But I did for quite a few years on and off, and for all that I loved having a room of my own at last (how pleasant, not to have to extract someone else’s hair from the shower), there were always lonely moments. When I was burgled, there was no one to comfort me after the police had left. A couple of boyfriends dumped me (though to be fair, I dumped a couple back). Sometimes, having cooked myself a proper supper, I would have one of those sad...

Preparing a meal for one: The pandemic has given fresh purpose to solitary cooking It is a good time to be remind oneself of the lessons to be learned from solitary, yet satisfying cooking. Synopsis Making food alone in barsatis & bedsits has often accompanied the first whiff of freedom. In the 2019 indie film Axone about young Northeasterners in Delhi trying to cook a dish that many people in the city find offensively smelly, they finally find refuge on a terrace after being denied access to m...