This is the time of year when life can start to feel overwhelming and cooking becomes more of a burden than a joy. Thankfully there is lots of good food writing out there that can help you recenter yourself and find the peace and satisfaction available in cooking, eating and living.
Earlier in the week, Culinate posted an essay by Charlotte Freeman entitled The Walking Cure. It is about a time when Freeman was struggling with an inexplicable illness that made her run fevers and feel exhausted. A practitioner of Chinese medicine recommended outdoor physical exercise and so she started taking long, very slow walks in the woods on the Utah/Wyoming border.
The essay contains a sense of quiet, almost as if you have stepped into the woods with Freeman and you are able, for a moment, to feel the dampness of the trees and hear the twigs snapping as you step. It also makes you (well, as least if you are me) want to leap up, grab a book about mushrooms and head to the woods in order to find your own.
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