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Amid this year's chaos, food became a consistent source of comfort, if you were lucky. For the many whose livelihoods were disrupted, food was source of anxiety. Here's a look at the different ways we ate our way through 2020 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/venessawong/2020-food-cooking-eating via @BuzzFeedNews
"I got sick with the coronavirus in April and am still dealing with long-term symptoms...fevers, headaches, coughing, and exhaustion. It’s been a year of eating for survival and comfort, seeking strength from my food while spending minimal energy on it." @nidhiprakash
"The microwaved hot dog is my great lunch shame. It is also the pandemic-inspired “innovation” of which I am most proud." @JohnPaczkowski
"Starting a few months ago, some churches switched over to the Trump food boxes that include only onions and potatoes that are mostly near end of life, a few packs of hot dogs, blocks of unlabeled cheese, a milk gallon, and...packages of yogurts and cottage cheese." Lynn, MD
"I kept a list of all the recipes I made at home from scratch...but eventually I folded, ordered a lot of Soylent near the beginning of the pandemic, made a lot of smoothies, and eventually just drank milk as a substitute for actual food." @allmalone
"It can sometimes feel overwhelming, but I still find a lot of solace in cooking. It gives me control in a world that feels out of control, an outlet for stress and anxiety." @mimms
"The night that Oakland went into lockdown, I made five-spice duck legs with buttered turnips and fried ginger, from a recipe by David Tanis." @scottlucas
"In the middle of lockdown, I spontaneously baked a pile of chonky American cookies and hiked a couple of hours to the apartment building of friends in South London...we had an obnoxiously loud 10-minute conversation between the sidewalk and their second-story window." @meghara
"It’s all in the 40-plus tabs of our spreadsheet, a record of everything we ate during this pandemic year. We will definitely stick to it post-COVID. It just makes planning the week so much easier." @jtemplon
"We go to the food bank once a week, every Sunday. They give each household one box of food. It’s not enough to feed me and my roommate, so I’m honestly not sure what families are doing now that schools are shut down again." Robin, Denver
"I eat a salad for lunch every day. A healthy salad. The same salad. It’s my pandemic salad." @CraigSilverman
"The pandemic has shown me what a literal never-ending bowl of pasta feels like: not particularly inspired, but satisfying nonetheless." @venessawong
"I get food from various sources. Family and friends who receive food boxes have been sharing with me biweekly: applesauce, cereals, canned beans, canned vegetables, canned fruit, canned soups, rice." —Leslie, NY
"I conquered Julia Child’s beef bourguignon. I started reading cooking books — actually reading them, not just skimming through recipes and pictures — and I learned about the science of food and taste and cooking." @davidmackau
"There’s no time like a pandemic to confront your bean-induced fart fears, as long as everyone else you’re holed up with is on board." @KendallTTaggart
"At some point, I will return to the banana cream pie and work on it until I get the custard right. If the pandemic has taught me anything about life and baking, it’s OK to struggle." @skbaer
"Cooking for myself and others has long been one of the most constant pleasures of my life — unfortunately the inevitable flip side of that, dishes, became my 2020 curse." @ambiej
"I am one of the smart people who is correct that all food is and can be breakfast food: juicy-ass tomatoes in the summer, cozy noodle soups on a rainy day, bread that you didn’t realize was moldy until it was too late, leftovers of all stripes" @clarissajanlim
"I told the owner, Dennis, that his borsch smelled like home. 'It’s not going to be like your grandma’s borsch,' he said, in Russian, 'but we try.'" @JaneLytv
“Pho has always been a hug in a tummy from the days when my mom first fed it to me as a toddler. When she taught me how to make it half a decade ago, I felt like I learned how to heal myself.”
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