List-making has been a valuable coping mechanism I’ve relied on during the pandemic. Household tasks, Amazon wish lists, deadlines I’ll probably miss, non-COVID diseases and ailments I’m probably succumbing to—all contributing to a fleeting illusion of control in a chaotic universe.
I was suitably impressed by the number of food and drink events happening this weekend, mostly outdoors, with masking requirements, but still enough of a respectable concentration of public activity that I felt compelled to round it up, listing-like. Listcraft was one of my first trades when I joined the Reader last century. I’m old-school like that.
I was especially excited to order a banana-leaf-wrapped, beef-fry-and-rice pothi choru from Thommy Padanilam of Thommy’s Toddy Shop, via Superkhana International, proceeds of which go to COVID relief in India. Then this morning came the news that Superkhana itself is cooking up butter chicken pot pie dinners for two, with all proceeds going to 1 Billion Breaths, a worldwide restaurant campaign to send oxygen to India. The special runs next Wednesday through Saturday. Your $68 dollars buys the pie, a salad, roasted asparagus, a pint of Superkhana’s Chai’s Cream ice cream, and two tanks worth of sweet, sweet O2 for someone who needs it.
Take control of the universe. Put it on your list.
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