Dating During COVID-19: The Pleasure of Cooking for a Partner | Eater
"A public park where the narrator and their date sat on separate picnic blankets, physically spaced so far apart on damp grass that she could barely make out his features; his circular-frame glasses made it hard to tell whether his eyes were green or brown. The outdoor setting felt simultaneously awkward and intimate — a cautious, socially distanced first date that nevertheless prompted him to ask to be invited over for dinner — capturing the strange mix of hope, exhaustion, and tentative connection that defined dating during the pandemic." - Elazar Sontag
