The only thing left to do in the quarantine is bake, so I made some salted chocolate cookies. I ate a couple with my second cup of coffee of the day. I like to have a snack while I do my work, even when I can't go to a coffeeshop.
The photograph shows four 13.4-oz (can-sized) cardboard boxes of beans lined up on a counter. Since the beginning of quarantine, the Whole Foods near the Macalester campus has instituted a bean limit: four cans or boxes and two dry bags of beans per…