This new quarantine cookbook is a love letter to NYC.
, have been friends since middle school. Food instantly became a foundational part of their friendship. In the mornings after sleepovers, Hall and Alter would gather in Alter’s kitchen to start their day with her mom’s shakshuka. To this day, Alter and Hall both obsess over Hall’s mother’s salad dressing. When I ask what makes it so special, Hall can’t quite place it.
Before the coronavirus, they'd talked about organizing an IRL dinner party series where they’d debut small, printed cookbooks after the shared meal. After those sorts of dinners became impossible, it shifted the focus of their proposed project. “Once the pandemic hit it was clear we had to expedite the project and shift the initial idea so the cookbook could serve as a means to raise money for those in need,” Alter says, in addition to creating a virtual space for people to come together.
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