Item

Tastes like Home

Title (Dublin Core)

Tastes like Home

Disclaimer (Dublin Core)

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Description (Dublin Core)

The pandemic changed so many things about everyday life, and even our food wasn't spared. Not only did the effects of COVID-19 attack our sense of taste, but it even affected those who hadn't contracted it. Going out to restaurants was completely out of the question, and to avoid spending too much money on take-out, my family continued to brave the grocery stores. There was a silver lining, though, because it started to change the way we felt about meals. I spent more time cooking with them back home in Vienna, VA, and now that I live here in Tempe I find a lot of those habits have stuck with me.

I'm especially glad that I started baking more before I left home. Baking was a way to get the whole family together and give each of us something to look forward to that day, in a time when days kind of blended together and none of us knew what to expect. What's more, we'd all heard stories about how early COVID symptoms included loss of smell and taste, so I think there was a small part of me that was reassured by actually being able to taste what we'd all worked on together. I included a brownie recipe that I use a lot with this post, so you can try it if you like and get a taste for how it still offers me some comfort.

Date (Dublin Core)

June 1, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Michael Wohl

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Text Story and Recipe

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/25010/absolutely-best-brownies/
https://web.archive.org/web/20220620054858/https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/25010/absolutely-best-brownies/

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Consumer Culture (shopping, dining...)
English Food & Drink
English Health & Wellness
English Home & Family Life

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

restaurant
grocery shopping
Vienna
Virginia
Tempe
Arizona
baking
brownies
recipe
smell
taste
habit

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Sensory History
Taste History

Collection (Dublin Core)

Foodways

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Sensory history submissions and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

05/24/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

05/24/2022
06/19/2022
06/27/2023

Date Created (Dublin Core)

06/01/2020

Item sets

Covid 19

This item was submitted on May 24, 2022 by Michael Wohl using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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