Like many people practicing social distancing during the pandemic, Lisa Anger and her fiancé, percussionist Eddie Glikin, have been spending more time in the kitchen. Anger, a licensed clinical social worker, runs a private holistic psychotherapy practice and teaches family therapy and other courses at the School of Social Work. When she noticed that out-of-work musician friends also were doing more meal preparation at home, she saw an opportunity to help.
The pair pitched the idea of a recipe collection to friends in the music community to assist a local nonprofit. The result, The Athens Quarantined Musicians’ Cookbook, contains more than 40 recipes, plus photos and contributor biographies. All proceeds from the 105-page booklet go to Nuçi’s Space, a mental health and resource center for musicians.
“The idea to have it [be] a Nuçi Space fundraiser was a no brainer,” said Anger, “since both Eddie and I had close ties with Nuçi’s, him as a musician who has both been helped by them and has done a lot of fundraising for them, and for me, a former board member and a mental health professional here in Athens.”
