https://longreads.com/2024/11/12/hunger-belonging-pregnancy-surrogate-kristina-kasparian The Kitchen With 2 Doors. As an itinerant worker, this resonated. When you're away from your home, your family, your people, food is a metaphor for the things you feel,, the strings that tug your heart, the absences that pockmark your spirit. It might be _mulukhiyah_ (ewedu, to Nigerians), it might be jollof, it might be a cup of tea, but making and savoring it reminds you that you came from somewhere and belong to someone, and distance will not eradicate that fact. I enjoyed this a lot