Food + Culture
Grocery shopping is my favorite daily ritual. Covid-19 couldn’t change that—but it did change me.

09.17.2020
by Laurie Woolever
In lockdown, I’ve been cooking Armenian food to stay connected with my community. The kitchen is too quiet.
09.17.2020
by Liana Aghajanian
I’m a farm worker in Washington state, picking apples during the wildfires. All I have is a cloth mask to protect myself.
09.16.2020
by Jessica Fu + "Mr. Gonzalez"
My Lebanese grandmother smuggled a dab of yogurt culture out of her country during the 1918 pandemic. I’m making laban in tribute.
09.15.2020
by Elmaz Abinader
Before the pandemic, I lived in a co-op named “The Beet” and ate from a Trader Joe’s dumpster. I still had a lot to learn about sustainable living.
09.11.2020
by Olivia Box
Marion Nestle knows it’s not easy to be a smart consumer of food, or of media. The only solution may be to get political.
09.10.2020
by Kate Cox
I stood in Soviet breadlines as a kid. The pandemic has unleashed my long-forgotten fear of scarcity.
09.10.2020
by Yelena Moroz Alpert
For 10 years I’ve used a calorie-counting app to maintain a healthy weight. Since I started stress-eating this year, I can’t bring myself to log in.
09.09.2020
by David Moloney
Since he died 3 years ago, I’ve avoided making my husband’s favorite pancakes. The pandemic’s isolation made me want to try again.
09.08.2020
by Evangeline Neve