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The week my mother was dying, my sister and I took a short break from her bedside to go to a church sale, where I bought a necklace and a sweater. When you're at the museum, sometimes you hurry by priceless works of art in search of the bathroom (apologies to novelist Sally Rooney, from whom I stole this idea). On a Sunday morning when people are dying in Ukraine, you may be eating waffles and sipping coffee in your soft, fuzzy bathrobe.
The world is, and always has been, a jumble of joy, pain and the humdrum. If you thought about the heartbreak all around all the time, it'd be hard to go to work, pay your taxes, clean your house, get up in the morning.
But looking at the food stories we published this week, this juxtaposition strikes me anew. The deep pain, the pleasure, the hope (here and here), and the everyday. We are living in interesting times. I, and maybe many of you, would prefer ordinary ones.
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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