The pandemic made me hate cooking. Here’s how I learned to love it again

As the house contracted and expanded with the snores of my family, I rapped a message on the counter with my spatulas. I. AM. NOT. A. SLAVE.
The pandemic made me hate cooking. Here’s how I learned to love it again

Cooking during the pandemic has been like being a short-order cook in a really mediocre diner.

If you read this headline and thought to yourself, “Ha, I would rather burn my kitchen down than cook another meal,” then you are my people.

There have been times over the last number of months when I have fantasised about a) employing a personal chef who would have to adhere to an extremely rigid preference sheet set by me when I am premenstrual and b) setting fire to my kitchen and running as far as the wind will take me, to a land where no person ever has to cook again.

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