A HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US
Time, as wise people will tell you, is relative — and never has that felt more true than since the dawn of 2020. But, quite objectively, three years have passed since we launched this website on February 1st of that fateful year. So today, we celebrate! This last year was, in many ways, our favourite year yet. We got to meet many of you at our events, discovered the joys of overhead projection and smiley fries, wrote extensively about food as faux pas, as installation art, about museum-worthy kitchens and Christmas confectionery. We had some wonderful contributors, both on our website and at our events, for whom we are forever grateful — as we are for all of you who followed along. THANK YOU, and stay tuned, we’ve got loads more up our sleeves.
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