Cheesy Mashed Potatoes for the Soul
'In times of great stress, or of flickering, low-level dread, I find that canceling all my plans and staying in to make mashed potatoes generally helps. This year, there were quite a few opportunities to do so. Election-related anxiety gnawed at me for months, lighting up old networks of pain in my shoulders and back. Mold bloomed around the mysterious wet patch that appeared in my bedroom ceiling. I started a thrilling, but terrifying, new job. And as the holidays neared, I worried about my grandmother, almost 80, living alone. Still, I let about half her calls go to voice mail each week, and hated myself for it.
I turned to aligot, the cheese-thickened mashed potatoes with roots in central France. Aligot doesn’t fix anything, but it does put a little cushion between you and the abyss, whatever form the abyss might take.'>>>
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/magazine/cheesy-mashed-potatoes-for-the-soul.html?
