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Cooking With Friends for the Grieving

November 9, 2009 by Alison

Last week I received an e-mail from Jo, a loyal CWF member, who shared a sad piece of local news about a devoted mother of three young children who unexpectedly passed away. This unthinkable tragedy left the family in disarray, as the husband must pick up the pieces while working to support his family. One of things he is struggling with is providing meals for his family. It’s a hard enough task for a healthy frazzled mother of three, never mind a grieving, hardworking husband and father. Well, we can relate.

Jo wrote to me in the hopes that, (in her words,) the “lovely CWF crowd” would band together to help this family. In her e-mail, Jo talks about “people using their primal instincts” to help others going through a horrible time. She hit on one of the most powerful reasons to cook with friends — to help those in need.

Throughout the Cooking With Friends community, people are cooking together for those going through tough times. A few weeks ago, I cooked with Liz and Christina for a friend (and mother of two boys) who just had a medical scare and before that, we cooked for another friend who was recovering from surgery and literally couldn’t get on her feet to cook dinner.

While we sautéed our onions and garlic for a big batch of tomato sauce, assembled baked ziti and molded meatballs, we talked about why we were cooking together. During our few hours together, the simple act of cooking for someone else brought us together, giving us a way to digest what our friend must have been going through. Jo was right — our primal instincts kicked in.

Jo’s request was for us to help this grieving family by creating a meal schedule and providing dinner. I, for one, am looking forward to helping””while spending time with my friends. Will you join me?
If anyone else in the NJ community is interested in helping this family, please e-mail me off line: ajbermack@verizon.net.

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  1. Leah says

    November 9, 2009 at 11:26 pm

    I have to admit, there is something that is so much more fulfilling when you’re cooking to help someone who needs it. I had the chance to fill my own mom’s freezer this summer before she had to go for a big surgery, and knowing that she and my dad would be able to eat healthy foods with little effort on their part was extremely rewarding.

    Best wishes to that family – if I were closer I would definitely help!

  2. Suzanne says

    November 12, 2009 at 11:23 am

    Hi Alison-

    I have coordinated meals for a family in need and just learned about a website that makes this kind of thing a TON easier. It is called Jooners.com. The coordinator makes a schedule online with all of the needs and then the volunteers go to the site and sign-up to help. It has made coordinating this kind of thing much less painful.

    Hope this helps-
    Suzanne

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It all began when I was a child cooking with my dad, the kitchen a magnet for cooking and camaraderie, a refuge from adolescence. I spent countless hours chopping, sautéing and simmering my way through childhood. And now, with three kids of my own, I’m still chopping, but this time through their childhood and often with friends.

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