Summer food and drink recipes and ideas, and a thought-provoking read on how dementia changed Wendy Mitchell’s relationship with food
There is a story in this month’s magazine that explores how dementia can change our relationship with food. Not only what we might choose to cook, but also what we eat. Wendy Mitchell, author of the memoir Someone I Used to Know, can feel her life changing since dementia arrived, uninvited and unwelcome, at her door. She writes of the sadness of how eating out, once a great pleasure, has been turned on its head to become an event fraught with problems – too many options, too many decisions. In the kitchen, she can no longer trust herself not to put too much flour in the cake or to forget the eggs.
Mitchell’s story is all her own, but one that you suspect is being lived out by many others too. There is no answer to dementia, no cure, but there are people like Mitchell helping to raise awareness and, just as importantly, to let others who find themselves living with dementia know that they are not alone.
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