Tessa Lidstone remembers the last meals she cooked before she had to close her Bristol restaurant Box-E for the first lockdown. I thought about all the people without a support network and how awful it must be to not have contact with anyone.”Lidstone saw a callout from a collective of Bristol restaurants called the Bristol Food Union. They were looking for volunteers to help put together boxes of emergency food for young care leavers who would be isolated during those initial days of the pandemic. “I got mountains of nappies and baby food,” she says, “so we could offer a more appropriate box of essentials. Between packing stints, the girls would ride their bikes around the ground, making obstacle courses out of empty boxes.

Source: The Guardian April 22, 2022 23:22 UTC