{"id":37,"date":"2022-03-24T11:08:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T15:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2022-04-06T11:02:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T15:02:21","slug":"jonathon-kahn","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/communitiesarecritical\/jonathon-kahn\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathon Kahn"},"content":{"rendered":"

“<\/span>I started with eggs, gently scrambling them. Cooking, I discovered, is not in the heat or the salt, but in the implicit insistence that I was determined to repeat these sets of actions–the cracking of the eggs and folding in a bit of cream or cheese. I learned to cook when I understood that each time I cooked, I was asking if I could do this again. She could say no. But I was moved to ask. Learning to cook, I discovered, lay in the possibility of refusal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

My story is an account of how I learned to establish a connection with my partner through cooking for her. Cooking for another person became the way I understood the nature of sharing a life together.<\/span><\/p>\n