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My colleague Tim Cebula's story this week about what chefs and dieticians eat when they're feeling poorly brought to mind a related idea: What to feed people who need sustenance, comfort, a helping hand.
I have been on the receiving end: Friends invited my sister and me over for a hot home-cooked meal (by a crackling fire) the night our mother died. And I have been on the giving end: an easy-to-reheat, protein-packed dinner for neighbors with a new baby.
The giving can go awry: Coffee beans for the friend who drinks tea, brownies for the neighbor with cancer who is avoiding sugar, lasagna for the sibling home from the hospital whose freezer is already packed with trays of the stuff. Apparently, there's an entire genre of jokes about this last item: "Here's some lasagna to help you feel better, or at least too full to complain." Ba-dum-ching.
In my experience, online meal trains are a lifesaver - one hopes for the recipient, but also for the giver who wants to get it right. And do check out this excellent cookbook: "Extra Helpings."
Peggy Grodinsky, Food Editor |
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Peggy Grodinsky has been the food editor at the Portland Press Herald since 2014. Previously, she was executive editor of Cook’s Country, a now-defunct national magazine that was published by America’s Test Kitchen. She spent several years in Texas as food editor at the Houston Chronicle, seven years at the James Beard Foundation in New York, and a (magical) year as a journalism fellow at the University of Hawaii.
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