Food for thought #68

A weekly roundup for hungry readers📚

Reading

• The colourful cult of Le Creuset

• Who stole all the cheese? The inside story of the boom in luxury food heists

• Cool condiments: ‘little treat culture’ leading to boom in preserves and sauces

• ‘Book brigade’: US town forms human chain to move 9,100 books one-by-one

• How Irish booksellers feel about the arrival of Amazon.ie: ‘It’s a very real danger to the industry’

• The death of capital letters: why gen z loves lowercase

Spring cleaning

• We’re making room at HQ for the arrival of Issue #3 of Scoop later this year, so we’ve put Issues #1 and #2 on sale for only €5 each. Sale ends April 30th.

Word of the week

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I’m Kristin Jensen, the founder, publisher and editor at Blasta Books and Nine Bean Rows. Before I started my publishing house, I was a freelance editor and food writer for over 20 years and I’ve co-authored three books. I pretty much eat, sleep and breathe books and food. You can also find me on Instagram @edibleireland.📚