New Yorkers turned an eye to shelf stable comforts–beans, pasta, soups
March 17: Gourmet-level recipes for your coronavirus pantry staples
March 22: The Best Way to Cook Beans
April 20: Easy Recipes to Cook During Your Coronavirus Self-Quarantine
April 21: How I stock the smitten kitchen
May 28: The Comfort and Power of Asian Cooking in Quarantine
May 29: Our Best Recipes and Tips for Quarantine Cooking
May 30: Quarantine Cooking Chronicles — Part 1
June 22: Eating habits: How have they changed since Covid-19?
July 1: Quarantine Cuisine: How COVID-19 Could Change a Generation’s Eating Habits
With more time on their hands New Yorkers experimented with cooking and baking projects, as well as other food related activities at home, like gardening and composting.
March 20: Here’s What You’ve Been Cooking During Coronavirus Self-Quarantine
March 25: Food Supply Anxiety Brings Back Victory Gardens
March 26: Bread recipes to try during coronavirus lockdown
March 28: Here’s Why All the Yeast Is Sold Out Right Now
March 30: Stress Baking More Than Usual?
April 8: Becoming a master of cuisine during coronavirus
April 10: Quarantine bakers are making flour a hot commodity
April 21: Gardening in the time of coronavirus: Grow a ‘victory garden’
April 22: Regrow Scallions for a Future Full of Alliums
April 30: Forget the Sourdough. Everybody’s Baking Banana Bread.
May 8: How to Grow a Victory Garden of Any Size
May 11: Most Popular Quarantine Recipes in Every State
May 12: Where Is All the Flour? Why Pandemic Baking Is So Popular
May 20: The Pandemic Has Turned Us All into Gardeners
May 24: Baking bread at home: A knead for comfort
May 27: NYC Bakeries Selling (or Giving Away) Sourdough Starter Right Now
June 12: Residents Fight to Keep Composting From Getting Trashed in New York City’s Covid-19 Budget Cuts
July 9: Richaud Valls Turned a Bread Habit Into a Bakery Business
February 16: Stuck at Home, Pastry Chefs Find Freedom. New Yorkers Find Cookies.
The Black Lives Matter protests brought many people out of their homes and onto the streets. Some people showed their support through food: feeding protesters, ordering from Black owned restaurants, and donating to related causes. At the same time, serious criticisms of mainstream food media began in late spring, and began to highlight some of the material inequities that people of colour experienced in the field.
May 9: Alison Roman and the Exhausting Prevalence of Ethnic Erasure in Popular Food Culture
June 4: Black cookbooks and memoirs
June 5: A Comprehensive Guide on How to Support NYC’s Black-Owned Restaurants
June 8: How to Feed Crowds in a Protest or Pandemic? The Sikhs Know
June 19: Cooks are nourishing protesters and a social movement by sending food to the front lines
June 24: A Seat at the Table: Amplifying the Voices of Black Cookbook Authors
June 26: How Can Food Media Fix Its Racism Problem?
July 30: How Food Media Flattens Ethnicity Into Identity
People turned to Zoom and other platforms to maintain some semblance of important and needed socializing through food and drink. This was not only a means of connecting families and friends, but also a way for chefs and others in the food industry to connect with their customers and audience virtually.
April 7: Passover Seders Go Digital During COVID-19 Lockdown
April 13: Celebrity Chefs Take to Instagram, and to the Pantry
April 23: Free Online Cooking Classes During Coronavirus
May 4: Virtual cooking classes with NYC chefs
May 6: Baking Tips for New Yorkers Stuck at Home
May 12: NYC Sanitation Department Debuts Coronavirus Cooking Show | New York City ; NYC’s Dept. of Sanitation has a cooking channel — and it’s not garbage
June 3: NYC buildings host virtual cooking classes for residents
June 6: Learn to Cook Online: A Guide to the Best Classes at Every Level
June 12: Hey Food Lovers, The Virtual Cooking Classes by NYCWFF Are Fantastic!
August 7: A Cooking Camp Chef’s Recipe For Remote Education: Make It Ambitious
August 26: Brooklyn-Based Chef Goes Virtual Amid COVID-19
August 27: I can’t cook, but it’s the only way to connect to my last living parent—who I can’t visit.
February: The 7 Best New York City Cooking Classes of 2021, 11 Best Online Cooking Classes 2021
Whether an enjoyable chore that brought satisfaction and comfort, or yet another chore on top of the stressful double duty of work and childcare, home cooking was imbued with multiple meanings, These pieces of food writing explore the symbolic meanings behind food, cooking, and eating during the pandemic.
April 2: Opinion | How to Cook a Coronavirus
April 8: The 33 Most Comforting Recipes Our Readers Are Cooking Right Now
April 23: Everyone Is Cooking Right Now. Except Me.
April 28: A Mother, a Pandemic and Scorched Rice
April 28: Coronavirus is turning badass NYC women into housewives
May 4: Quarantine Stew
May 6: After surviving the coronavirus, I turned to my mother’s recipes
May 19: Survey: 29% in New York see quarantine up side
May 20: What Happens When Coronavirus Takes Your Sense of Taste
June 2: For Those Who Don’t Know How to Cook, Quarantine Presents a Challenge
June 18: How COVID-19 Has Changed Our Relationship With Food 06/19/2020
August 20: Are Americans fed up with making their own meals?
As months of social distancing, isolation, and home cooking wore on, some people experienced cooking fatigue
August 20: Are Americans fed up with making their own meals?
November 10: For Home Cooks, Burnout Is a Reality This Holiday Season
November 15: Once Enthusiastic, Americans’ ‘Cooking Fatigue’ Simmers As Pandemic Drags On
November 25: The Joylessness of Cooking
Check out the Brooklyn Library Oral History Project and The Counter for narratives of the New York experience during the pandemic