Marni Soupcoff: Why comfort foods can be good for you (especially during a pandemic) soupcoff
At Easter time, when we were avoiding grocery stores and having Domino’s pizzas dropped at our door regularly, it still felt vitally important to make a carrot cake from scratch. So important that I ordered overpriced carrots and cream cheese from a convenience store through Uber Eats to make it happen. And so important that I eventually ate half the delicious cake myself before dumping the rest in the green bin.
An Uber Eats cyclist makes a delivery during the coronavirus pandemic, in the Capitol Hill neighbourhood of Washington, on April 1, 2020.And the thing is, all that sub-functional sustenance-related coping — overfeeding of self and loved ones on hand-crafted sweet happy foods, overbuying of military rations when the only shortages evident in grocery stores were Charmin and pure vanilla extract — felt healthy.
Unfortunately, as the lockdown has progressed, I have started noticing another human tendency that feels less benign. Have you ever had the impulse to clean up your diet, purge the junk from your system, flush out the toxins, purify your microbiome, abstain your way to perfect health? I have, and it has been asserting itself more vehemently lately.
I am here to remind you, and myself, that just as an organic carrot bestows no more nor less moral virtue than a slice of white Wonder bread, eating clean will not make someone a more nor less worthy person, but it might just make them less likely to emerge from this pandemic with a healthy psyche.
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