Since the pandemic, we’ve established lunch with my husband as a welcome and necessary break in the day. Now that our kids are in school 5 days a week, we find lunch to be a short time to connect and brief each other in a way that we can’t over a rapid breakfast making a lunch bag for my son and folding laundry or the tired but also chaotic making of dinner. Sometimes we’ll have an egg cheese and bacon burrito, a sandwich, or a Trader Joe’s item du jour. Some favorites right now: doctor the TJ’s pad thai from the frozen section with some pan-fried shrimp and extra sriracha; tuna sandwiches on herbed Macrina baguette and BBQ Kettle chips, or a giant spinach salad with boiled egg, cheese, almonds, beet and balsamic vinaigrette.
But before the pandemic - my lunch experiences were vast!
When I worked at the media company in New York City, one of my favorite lunch routines was to go to Washington Square Park with a des…