The Weekender: March 26 to 29: Visit Virtual Museums, Cook Using Ingredients From a Bare Pantry, and Watch a Throwback Show
You may not be able to make the trek to the Musee d’Orsay right now, but you can visit virtually thanks to a partnership with museums around the globe and Google Arts & Culture. Photo by AndreyKrav/iStock
As the world continues to grapple with COVID-19, BU Today is thinking of interesting things to cook, read, and watch while you are cooped up at home. From virtual museums to books that are out of this world, let us give you some more ideas on how to spend your newfound free time. Have suggestions for future weeks? Send an email to BU Today writer Amy Laskowski (amlaskow@bu.edu) for future editions.
What to Eat
For the culinarily challenged (like this writer), YouTube channel Tasty has a wide variety of videos featuring quick, simple recipes. If you’re looking to finally pick up cooking while quarantined, check out this video featuring five easy two-ingredient recipes. Have eggs and chocolate chips? You have yourself a chocolate cake. The video also teaches you how to make a basic pizza.
Item You Never Knew You Needed to Buy
Well…ever think you’d be interested in fidget spinners again? Now may be the perfect time to get back into an old fad. Let these toys make the time spent hunkered down a bit more bearable while leaving you with some nostalgia for a simpler time (2018).
Where to “Go”
Start your day at the Musée d’Orsay before heading to New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, travel bans be damned. While you might not be able to physically spend time at museums these days, you can take these virtual tours, presented in partnership with museums around the globe and Google Arts & Culture.
What to Read
If you are hunkering down at home and feeling a bit of wanderlust, we can recommend the kind of book that really lets you explore—and none covers as much ground as The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. This intergalactic tale sees protagonist Arthur Dent saved from Earth’s destruction by alien Ford Prefect, and it follows their subsequent travels across the galaxy.
What to Watch
That ’70s Show started airing before some undergrads were born, so maybe you haven’t caught on to one of TV’s funniest looks at life in suburbia. Available on Netflix, the show lets you spend a few hours with Eric, Kelso, Donna, and the rest of the gang to de-stress and get groovy.
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