Illustration: Samantha Hahn In mid-March, pastry chef Natasha Pickowicz was furloughed from her leading roles at both Café Altro Paradiso and Flora Bar in New York City. One of the biggest adjustments, she said, was how much she missed working with her hands. So she decided to start sketching her favorite pastry creations from memory, calling the exercise “cake calisthenics.” She then sold these drawings on Instagram to help raise money for her team’s GoFundMe page.
Getting crafty: Continuing to make things with my hands has been my most vital tool for preserving my well-being. I switched from baking to sketching the pastries that I most missed. I give myself 10 to 15 minutes per doodle to remember past wedding cakes, stacks of cookies, a swirl of soft-serve, glazed bundt cakes, a wobbly flan … revisiting those beautiful memories has been really comforting, and keeping my hands busy with acrylics and colored pencils is super-soothing.
Preserving everything: I live alone, so I’ve been preserving — as in pickling, fermenting, candying, or dehydrating — half of my produce deliveries so they last as long as possible.
Illustration: Samantha Hahn Illustration: Samantha Hahn Indulging in some grooming: When I started working in restaurants full time, I gave up a lot of fun, girly rituals. But now that I’m not in a kitchen for 12 hours a day, I unexpectedly started embracing all of the little details that were either big kitchen no-no’s or inconvenient for my schedule: painting my nails , wearing my hair down , wearing wrist and hand jewelry, ultraelaborate skin-care rituals .
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