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Cooking Was My Jam, but Quarantine Is Ruining My Favorite Hobby

Lockdown has drained the joy from cooking

Photo: Photographer, Basak Gurbuz Derman/Getty Images

I was born to cook. My mother started teaching me how to properly bread chicken cutlets when I was a child, and why the best way to test red sauce was with the heel of a loaf of Italian bread. I grew up in an apartment in Queens that rested above my…