• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Cooking With Friends Club

food . . . friendship . . . inspiration

  • Home
  • Kitchen Chronicles
  • Recipes
  • Reviews
  • Bookshelf
  • Vintage
  • Press
  • Contact
You are here: Home / Shop / Shop Cooking With Friends for The Rainbow Whisk

Shop Cooking With Friends for The Rainbow Whisk

May 3, 2010 by evelyn

While jogging alone the other day, chugging my way through the park, I thought how nice it would be to have a friend by my side. Someone to chit-chat with and give the little nudge I would need to sprint up the approaching hill; someone to talk me into doing another loop; a friend to give me a gentle push.

And then it occurred to me. Wouldn’t we rather have a friend with us for so many things we do in life? Shopping, exercising, eating, exploring, traveling — cooking! Cooking with our friends should be as natural as doing anything else with a friend. Why not have someone by our side in the kitchen, offering encouragement in making a new dish, combining a few spices or simply trying to create healthy meals our kids will like and not push away?

A study conducted by UCLA in 2009, entitled “Friendship Among Women,” revealed that hanging out with our friends “can actually counteract the kind of stomach-quivering stress most of us experience on a daily basis.” It also suggests that “women respond to stress with a cascade of brain chemicals that cause us to make and maintain friendships with other women.”

So, we learn, it’s good for our health to be with our friends. Great news! But with all of life’s demands and time constraints, how do we fit it into our lives when there’s so much else to get done?
The answer is, we invite them into the routine of life and make them a part of what needs to be done. My friends and I will often help one another re-arrange a playroom, clean out a storage closet or give advice on renovations, all while hanging out and cooking together in the kitchen, the place we’re most comfortable together. We’re just a part of each other’s every day routines.

So, life isn’t solitary, it’s social and while we are accomplishing life’s basics, we’re also doing something that’s good for our health. Isn’t that nice!

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Instagram (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)

Filed Under: Shop

Previous Post: « Carrot Cake Mini-Muffins with Cream Cheese Frosting
Next Post: The Cookhouse »

Primary Sidebar

About Alison J. Bermack

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.

Read more…

Social Media

  • Bloglovin
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

Newsletter

Click here to learn more about my E-Newsletters and to access my E-Newsletter archive.

Content Archives

Categories

How To

Go to our tips and advice for Cooking With Friends.

Downloadables

Free recipe cards, food storage labels and shopping lists you can print and use!

Cooking With Friends on Facebook

Cooking With Friends on Facebook

Sites We Love

We love these sites. Link back to us to be considered.

About Food
  • Cooking With Anne
  • Delicious Days
  • Farmgirl Fare
  • Figs Olives Wine
  • Food 52
  • King Arthur Flour
  • Megnut
  • Michael Rulman
  • No Takeout
  • Orangette
  • Serious Eats
  • Steamy Kitchen
Everything Else
  • No Kid Hungry

Footer

  • Bloglovin
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

All content and recipes are the property of Cooking with Friends, LLC. Copyright © 2008-2019.

© Copyright 2008-2021 Cooking With Friends · All Rights Reserved ·

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.