I’ve been drinking through my grief, and before anyone panics, this is not a cry for help. It’s a dinner invitation. In this episode of Currently Cringing, I talk about how cooking, cocktails and entertaining have become a second form of therapy while I grieve, because when you have ten things on the stove, your intrusive thoughts have to make a reservation. My New York storage unit finally landed in Miami, and an eight-foot folding picnic table and six metal chairs sent me straight back to my twenties, hosting eight-course dinners for ten to fifteen people in an alcove studio with no dining room and zero respect for the fire code. I get into growing up in an Indian family where nobody taught the women to cook because we were told to read and earn money instead, being a Food Network kid wondering who Ina Garten’s Jeffrey actually is, recipe testing for my cookbook by turning dinner parties into focus groups, and why we’ve convinced ourselves our homes need to look like a Vogue home tour before we’re allowed to invite anyone over. Then cooking tried to kill me. My husband and I have a long-running theory that jalapeños have lost their heat, and the spiciest one we’ve ever had was at a pizza place in Park City, Utah, of all places. This week I finally found jalapeños that hot again, made stuffed jalapeño poppers without gloves, and gave myself Hunan hand, a capsaicin skin burn that left my hands on fire for 72 hours and felt eerily like vulvodynia, hand edition. Consider this your PSA to wear gloves. It’s an episode about grief, community, hosting without perfect furniture, and finding the parts of yourself that only went quiet for a while. Cookbook out 2028, $40, gloves sold separately. Stay spicy and stay cringe.
grief, cooking through grief, cooking as therapy, coping with loss, dinner party ideas, hosting at home, entertaining tips, jalapeño poppers, Hunan hand, jalapeño burn, capsaicin burn on hands, spicy jalapeños, Park City Utah, New York in your twenties, alcove studio, Ina Garten, Indian family, cookbook, cocktails, vulvodynia, comedy podcast, women’s podcast, Anisha Ramakrishna, Anisha Ram, Family Karma, Currently Cringing
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