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‘It tastes so much better when you did it yourself:’ During hiatus, Hawks’ Fernando finds new hobby in cooking

The list of what Bruno Fernando could cook used to be pretty short — omelettes.

That’s the one thing that stuck when his late mother, Natalia David, tried convincing him to learn to cook when he was growing up.

Bouncing from home cooking in Angola to dining halls when playing college basketball at Maryland to many meals provided by the Hawks, the rookie center had never really had the desire, or the need, to learn his way around the kitchen.

But, with the NBA season on hiatus since March 11 due to the coronavirus, with no games or practices or in-person meetings, Fernando decided to change that.