Closed Loop Cooking Weekly Newsletter 10.13.23

October 13th, 2023

Hi friends,

This is a deeply painful moment. I debated about keeping this edition strictly secular but food is inherently political. I can’t escape my cultural lens. 

I am grieving the unjust lives lost in Israel, and Gaza. I am grieving for the isolation in being Jewish in a place that does not care to understand the complexities. I am grieving the lack of acknowledgement from friends and coworkers and looking for ways to put my hands to use.

I am grieving that a few people in power have chosen a devastating fate for two traumatized populations.

And I feel I am left grieving alone. The diaspora is disparate and the ways in which I could explain this pain are not things I care to inflict. 

So I cook. 

To protest, to process, to care. Food is political and food is grief and food is love. In a time so seemingly divided, I want most to fill your plate. So we may share in this weight and keep ourselves going. So we may experience the full spectrum of our senses again and be present for this finite moment. 

As grief becomes me, I still believe to feed you is to love you. And what else is there other than our shared humanity? Everybody eats. 

I wish you empathy, compassion, and a full plate this week.

Stay hungry,Hawnuh Lee | Founder, Closed Loop Cooking

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