If you find yourself just... not wanting to cook right now? You're not alone. Senior Editor maggiejhoffman knows the feeling, and found ways to work through it.
I ask Cedar what we can do. “You do need to give yourselfform of pleasure and rest, even when you’re in a crisis,” she explains. “Giving yourself the time to have access to another sensation”—a moment of pleasure—"is going to be really important for your sustainability.”what burnout is telling you: “I’m not asking anyone to pretend that they feel good or positive if they don’t,” she says.
That doesn’t just mean pushing through the slog, Cedar explains. To access the joy you once felt in the kitchen, Cedar recommends grounding exercises: Mindfulness, basically. Burnout can feel numbing, even dissociating, and the first step against it is to tease the senses, taking note of every sensation in your body. Cooking with a focus on each sensation, Cedar says, “can help you find respite even in a chaotic world.
Cedar notes that this kind of cooking isn’t really about getting dinner on the table. The goal, instead, is “to make contact again with pleasurable experience.”is a reminder that cooking can be a source of pleasure no matter how many plates are at your table, or how many times you have to make dinner. She’s holding up okay. She tells me she’s been making a lot of fresh pasta lately: “I love that tactile feeling of bringing a dough together and developing the gluten,” she says.
I think, in part, I’m feeling detached from the kitchen because food hasn’t been a thread of connection with people outside my household in recent months. I used to have a dinner party once a week or more, filling all the chairs at a table meant for six or eight, not three. But I moved with my family across the country this past year, in part due to some medical issues that carry unknown COVID risk. We haven’t seen the few local friends we have.
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