How Cooking Sparks My Writing

By Jennifer N. Shannon

In a recent New Yorker article exploring the connection between walking and creativity, author Ferris Jabr notes how “Walking organizes the world around us; writing organizes our thoughts.” It wasn’t until a short while ago that I realized this is true for cooking as well.

I’ve always enjoyed making food, not enough to become a chef, but enough to tinker with recipes until I combine ingredients that work. I come from generations of women who could put anything on ...