Pizza in the Time of Corona

We have had restaurant pizza, either take out or in house, every Friday night as long as I can remember. But the only time, except for when runners blithely pass me on a walk, that I feel like I have not observed social distancing was when I went to pick up a pizza at the beginning of the stay at home order. While we are being encouraged to patronize restaurants for take out during these “unprecedented times”* it actually makes us uncomfortable so we have started making our own pizza. So far we have had white pizzas with different toppings – ricotta, pesto and artichoke heart, and a Greek version (spinach, feta, and kalamata olives). We also had a red one which when I bit into it immediately sent me back to my high school years and the pizza place near Tappan Zee High School. The pizzas are definitely “a work in progress” but it seems like making our own might be one of the lasting changes in our lives from the time of corona.

* I’m collecting euphemisms for how these times are referred to.