Do you miss walking into your favourite café and indulging in a cappuccino and muffin? Or, settling down at a table with your girl gang and making the most of your cheat day with croissants, waffles and hot chocolate? Some of these wishes can be fulfilled at home while you also help displaced migrant labourers or staff who could lose their jobs due to the economic fallout of the lockdown. Two e-cookbooks are up for sale. All proceeds from the sale will go towards them.

Cook For A Cause by La Folie

The lockdown has encouraged chefs to think out of the café box and fit their offerings into a phone screen through an Insta live session or an e-cookbook. Before the lockdown, Sanjana Patel, creative director and executive chef of La Folie had big plans to launch a Classroom Cooking Club. "I wanted to do one recipe a day in a blog. The lockdown inspired me to do an e-cookbook. I tied up with SEEDS, a non-profit voluntary organisation," explains Patel. Currently, the organisation is providing financial and essential services support to daily wagers. They are also supplying hygiene kits and food rations to marginalised families, old age homes and orphanages, and helping the government establish temporary quarantine facilities. All proceeds from the e-book will go to aid migrant workers displaced due to the pandemic.