Writer tells how cooking can heal a grieving heart
When Camille Orrichio Loccisano lost her teenage son Francesco to cancer six years ago, she found that her grief followed her into the kitchen. “You never know how a loss like that is going to affect you. With me, I found that I could no longer cook,” she told the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
“I remember a week after my son died, I went to the supermarket and I left the supermarket crying. I didn’t want to buy anything and I didn’t want to cook. I especially didn’t want to cook his favorite foods. All of my passion, all of my enthusiasm, was gone,” Orrichio Loccisano, who lives in Dyker Heights, said.
Francesco Loccisano, known as Frankie to his family and friends, was a 17-year-old Xaverian High School junior when he died. He had loved eating meals lovingly prepared by his mother.