When my grandmother taught me to make banana pancakes, which we did every Wednesday night through much of my childhood, she would counsel “Hold the bowl” as I stirred, which became, in our letters to each other, code for “I love you.”
Might cooking for another person be considered an act of love? Emma Allen explores the connection between cooking and affection in “For Love and Vegetables,” an essay published in the New Yorker.
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