Summer2025

EATING OUR FEELINGS

Olivia Ostrow: Matzah Ball Soup by COREY MINTZ

NO ONE LIKES TO BE SICK. But if we’re lucky, we do at least get a bit of pampering to help us through. To be cared for when you’re unwell is to receive a transfer of love. This usually takes the form of that most basic of needs: food. So what happens when it’s a chef whose got the cold? Like many people who work with food, chef Olivia Ostrow

usually makes the meals at home, too. “No one cooks for me” she laments. “After 25 years I’m still complaining to my husband that I don’t even get a coffee brought, ever, in bed.” Ex- cept if she’s sick. When Ostrow has a cold, she spends her days on the sofa watching British

The ultimate Jewish comfort food, Olivia Ostrow’s version of chicken soup has a distinctly French twist.

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FOOD/PROP STYLING/PHOTOGRAPHY MARISA CURATOLO

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