Cooking and Grieving

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/letters/cooking-grief.html

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To the Editor:

Re “Mourning With Every Meal” (Food section, Oct. 30):

I read Amelia Nierenberg’s article about the difficulty cooking and eating with bittersweet emotions. When my husband of 34 years died, and when I was on the floor with grief, I realized that the only thing that made me feel better was cooking and eating with friends.

I put together a list of good friends and friends I wanted to get to know better, and formed a food group. Each month we got together and cooked and ate a different cuisine. The food group lasted two and a half years and got me through the worst of the grieving. I made a lot of wonderful new friends as well, many of whom I still see after 16 years.

Deborah MichieFairfax, Calif.