Food gives us the immediate sense of satisfaction and comfort. Most important, it shows us that there is still beauty in simple things.
For two of the wars on Gaza — one the summer of my freshman year at the University of Pennsylvania and another during the winter break from my first year in business school — I was back home visiting my family.
My 6- and 4-year-old girls are going through an experience that no parenting book has a chapter on. They don’t understand why a yearlong awaited trip to visit their grandparents in Jerusalem had to be canceled two days before leaving. They don’t fully grasp why they have to see their teachers on a screen and why they can’t meet their friends and chase them around.?” they ask repeatedly about their other grandparents, who live 20 minutes away.
Yes, we have more free time and are bored. But like nothing else, food gives us the immediate sense of satisfaction and comfort — the one that bubbles in our bellies up to our hearts, because we have satisfied a specific need such as hunger, or because it has quelled our boredom and loneliness. ButBut it seems to me we cook during these times because it gives this senseless time meaning. It connects us to a past we are afraid we may never recover.
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