Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook! Nora Ephron
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When Rachel Samstat realized she was widowed, it wasn't long before she looked to her friends for the answers. The women were married to men who did what was expected of them, but they weren't wives at all. They had no real passion for cooking; their husbands didn't appreciate it. Rachel was devastated, and she went into survival mode. Rachel forced herself to cook because she needed to feel like her life had meaning again.

She cooked because that was the only thing she was good at. And so she survived, not so much by trying to pretend that her life had meaning, but by never taking things for granted. The key was finding the joy in cooking again, even when so many other things would have gladdened her heart equally or more than food did.

Source: Heartburn

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