New Normal depicts how Americans are pivoting amidst COVID-19. From side hustles to underground restaurants, these chefs are making moves despite the international pandemic.
New Normal
Through her project La TropiKitchen, Stephanie Bonnin makes handcrafted Colombian food and sells it from her apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Before COVID-19, Stephanie hosted pop-ups and dinner parties, but since the start of the pandemic, she's sold her arepas, enyucados, bollos, pasteles, and more directly from her bedroom window. Stephanie travels throughout Colombia to learn from local women about her country's varying culinary histories, from the Andes to the Amazon to major cities, then she takes this knowledge back to New York.
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After LA Rapper Hugh Augustine’s national tour was cancelled due to COVID-19, her came up with the idea to sell food to his community. He cooks and sells soul food out of his home in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of South LA. Hugh hopes his food will make a difference in the health and well-being of his community.
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