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In normal circumstances, my weekend is rarely complete without sharing a meal with friends. Eating through the lively restaurant scene of New York is a favorite hobby for many people and my partner and I'm no exception to this - our phones contain lists more and more new musk restaurants, which we are shooting mid-week to try NAB reservations for the weekend.

But also often, we will invite friends during a Saturday night dinner in our place. With regard to cooking for one of these dinners, there is usually a preparation. The cookbooks are drawn from the shelves, revenue corresponding to the meals, the returns lined or tripled and the mothers called on explaining the revenues that exist only in their memory.

Our cooking area allows several people to gather around the island of cooking, a blessing, I always keep in my daily mantras of gratitude - and we designed to have packed with friends as we cook. Hordled Together, we will share wine, stories of recent trips or misfortunes, as well as all the other things that accumulate in our brain during the week. It may seem crazy, but cooking in a buzzing cuisine full of people - chatting, debating and laughing is where I really feel comfortable.

Beforecoronavirus Hit New York and temporarily closed our lives, as well as the restaurants we love, there was a kind of dinner club forming in our group of friends. We talked about making an official calendar, where once a month we were going to organize all the group for dinner. Unfortunately, because of the strict quarantine guidelines now, these plans are waiting indefinitely.And without the ability to gather our people around the food, I started to feel as if our friendships would also be on an indefinite outfit. Celebrations of birthdays and job promotions have been reported to face-to-face interactions replaced by "simply check". Text messages.

Of course, we continued to cook for ourselves and maybe we do it more than ever. But the food has taken a more urgent role as fundamental livelihood, rather than a celebration treatment prepared with Gusto.

Then a week in the quarantine, some friends have suggested dinner together. We were all worn in our homes in our homes for a while, navigating the new unknown routine to work from our lounges, cook three meals a day, leaving our apartments for short trips in grocery stores and without another plan in sight . The isolation had started to carry us all and this simple and obvious suggestion was greeted with excitement.We pursue our gatherings around the dinner table virtually, in smaller groups, and we would do it as often as possible.

I must admit that no matter how we are digitally connected we are nowadays and I really do not really get me to use video call applications for dinner plans before. Of course, we had friends moving across the country and even disperse around the world, but we never thought of coordinating meals with any of them. Maybe it was because we see them in the near future did not seem total improbability. And maybe it was because the benefits of sharing a meal seems difficult to replace: the smells, the quality of the nature to pass food trays around the table or to garnish someone with more wine, The animated team work on the part of each with a small contribution: coat, chop, stir, garnish.No, dinner with friends at the time of pandemic coronavirus would not be the same by any way. But this could take place on a different platform and always serve as familiar human connection anchor.

At 7:30 that night, we connected the video and came out of our dinners at the table - our friends proudly showed their Gorgonzola Radicchio Risotto, and our bucatini FRA diavolo-complete with two bottles of wine. All things felt strangely natural. Familiar faces (although a small pixelated) and radiant voices of joy as we explained to the other how we made the food, what ingredients were difficult or easy to buy, and what we plan to cook then. . . Then dig and enjoy a few moments of happy silence while we take our first bites.It was also close to what we had before quarantine and it felt hope that we soon had it again.

We discussed for several hours around our virtual dinner table. Our collective thoughts were a healthy mix of hopes and fears about the future, one in which global pandemics were a real possibility. But we also shared revenue and meal planning advice for the coming weeks.Food is an endless source of fuel for our friendship, and it was always a lot. In fact, it happened to me that cooking every day had made more thoughtful cooks, plan and prepare our weekly meals with an unusual amount of foresight. Did we have enough ingredients for a homemade focus? Should we plan meat-centered meals or vegan for a while? There was a lot to talk about food.

We have separated the means of a common hope that we would soon be together, perhaps in the summer. Maybe we're going to break our social fast with a picnic in the park or launch a barbecue party in someone's yard. We will make spritz of Aperol and we will absolutely cook a kind of fruitydessert for the occasion.

The next day we had accepted a moment for our next dinner - it would happen a few days later and the menu plan off immediately. After that, my virtual birthday drinks would follow with our friends quarantined in Brazil and Argentina, as well as a cheese and an hour of wine on Saturday night was suggested by a dear friend in Brooklyn.Suddenly, the prospect of the dining room online together, at least for a while, did not seem so bad.

This has been a challenge to find things to hope when we have to stay away from each other, when the world and our city seem to change forever, and when the uncertainty has made most of our unnecessary shots ( It's almost a little sil sensation for having had projects in the first place). But there is a great comfort in the community, in the pursuit of our social rituals and starting up again. By connecting through the food, together, but separately. Via Webcam.

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