Sure, there are glitches — remember the mute button! — but the gatherings can help maintain connection during an anxious time.
As the coronavirus outbreak has driven people into their homes, whether because of a quarantine or just to help “flatten the curve,” a haunting set of images began circulating on social media.
Connor Ferguson, a writer from Somerville, Mass., has been holed up at home with his wife, venturing out only to go for walks or to the grocery store. But on Tuesday, he dined with more than 20 members of his extended family. The virtual dinner party was his wife’s idea, and it took off as soon as she proposed it. In the end, eight households from Nashville to Chicago participated. Everyone made pasta with red sauce.So much of the anxiety in this crisis has centered around food.
Holidays are when families and friends gather for shared meals, and with Easter and Passover on the horizon, many families are looking for ways to adapt their traditional gatherings. Ben Shlesinger, who does government relations for the American Kidney Fund, and his family usually go to his parents’ home in Silver Spring, Md., for Passover. His mother has cooked the Seder dinner for as long as he can remember, making brisket, chicken, matzo ball soup and kugel with cheese and raisins.
Fiennes, who considers herself a very social person, imagines that as the weeks of isolation wear on, the dinner parties could get ever more elaborate, just for the sake of diversion. She’s planning to “get together” with college friends on Saturday for a dinner, and there’s talk of having everyone cook the same recipe, so they can compare their efforts. “At some point, it will be like, ‘We’re having a posh dinner, everybody dress up!’ ” she says.
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