Make a dish that reminds someone of home

Few things are as evocative of a place as food. Since you're likely to know at least one person who's far from home, one way to ease homesickness for a moment is to prepare some food specific to their native land (even if 'their native land' is just the next county over). Whether you dry some squid for a Korean, grill some lard for a Romanian or milk a yak for a Tibetan, they're sure to appreciate the gesture. And if you're a terror in the kitchen, you could always just find a product, e.g. kangaroo jerky for an Australian, instead of cooking a dish.

Effort involved: it depends on how ambitious you want to get. One plus is that depending on what you cook, that could be one of your own meals sorted. 


Image from http://kendrasforestburgadventure.blogspot.com/2011/07/contemplating-canada.html.