Cooking and Covid-19: Chopping, Chard, Crackers and Cocktails

For many people, fears of covid-19 have given ground to frustration. Perhaps it’s not knowing when your office or school will reopen; or should you quarantine from your adult children; or when will the unemployment funds arrive. I am among the lucky ones: uninfected, housed, Internet-connected and not alone. The weather is warm, the sky is clear and cornflower blue. And it’s still hard.

March 26, Thursday

12:30 p.m. on Thursdays is a high point of my stay-home week. Diana Winston’s half-hour…