Why everyone is baking during COVID-19
Karen Bates is a home economics K-12 teacher. After sheltering at home for a few days, she began to bake bread and tweeted a photo of her results only to find that baking had gone viral too and "weirdly there are thousands of people baking right now". Karen was interviewed by the CBC (see link below) about how baking during COVID 19 has had a delicious resurgence. Karen is one of our beautifully articulate MAEEC students working on a thesis that has quickly risen to the occasion (pun intended) and evolved into three relevant themes which are: 1) what are some diverse views of people baking in the COVID crisis about why they bake; 2) an ecofeminist perspective of paradigms and dominant messages in society about why we cook; 3) her own musings about the relationship between cooking skills and human resiliency (as art and craft that might reconnect us to our ecological selves). As she has noticed that so many of us have started baking during COVID, she was wondering how much we subconsciously sense that we need to bring ourselves into alignment with a more human way of living in the world? She also wonders, if society continues to discount the importance of learning and practicing traditional cooking skills, will we have lost something very important to our human psyche? Knead more? Click on this link to read the full interview!
