Chop. Cook. Blend. Eat.

This month's cartoon shows how food is always a gathering point.

Aug 13, 2023

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A four-panel line drawing cartoon titled Where is the Manual for This?!. The first panel shows a mother cutting vegetables at a counter in the foreground while a girl in a wheelchair in the background says “chop” with her computerized talker. In the second panel, the mom scoops food from a hot pot while looking back at her daughter who says “Cook” with her talker. In the third panel, the mom adds strawberries to a blender and the daughter says “blend.” In the fourth panel, the mom is sitting at a table, eating with one hand and pushing food through her daughter’s feeding tube with the other. “Eat,” her daughter says.

On the second Sunday of every month, we feature Where is the Manual for This?!, an editorial cartoon about the medical mom life from Lenore Eklund.

Editor’s note: It was a slow news week this week and — like much of the policymaking world, it seems — I’m on vacation. The podcast and TikTok versions will be back next week but scroll down for the written …

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