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Healthyish friends,
At the beginning of last week, BA staffers were working on a dinner party feature for the fall, sending writers on road trips, cooking and filming in the test kitchen, walking to Los Tacos No. 1 for lunch, and talking about our upcoming vacations.
None of that is happening now. Instead, we’ve all been working at a dizzying speed to make our site, including Healthyish and Basically, as helpful, comforting, and relevant as possible considering where we’re at (home) and where you’re at (also home, I hope).
In case you’re looking, we’ve got SO many recipe galleries: Beans! Canned tomatoes! Tinned fish! We’ve got encouragement for new home cooks. Eighty-nine(!) recipes that use only five ingredients. And all the comfort food our staff is making right now.
Meanwhile, we’ve been talking to people in the restaurant and food world pretty much nonstop about how their lives have been affected by coronavirus. The owner of Rancho Gordo beans, an indigenous chef in the Twin Cities, a D.C. caterer, and so many more are creating an important record of the industry at this unprecedented time.
Want to help these restaurants and their staff right now? We’ve put together a list of ways to do that, and we’ll be rolling out more suggestions in the coming days, weeks, and months. Need to order coffee? We got you covered. How about wine? We’re working on that too.
Here at Healthyish, we’ve got 17 ways to feel better while stuck at home and 6 ingredients we’re doubling down on for mental and physical health. Remember chickpeas? Here are 29 healthyish recipes using them. Also did I mention Chris Morocco’s new Creamy-ish of Mushroom Soup? Kind of nonsensical name, really amazing (and vegan) recipe.
For my part, I’ve been thinking a lot about how differently people respond to uncertainty and stress. For example, a lot of my co-workers—and so many others—are finding solace in cooking right now, whereas I’ve had trouble mustering the energy to turn on my stove. It’s a great irony, considering my recent dedication to #notmealprep, how little I want to cook now that I’m “supposed to.” I never did like being told what to do.
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