Food for thought #69

A weekly roundup for hungry readers📚

Reading

• The extraordinary rise of bakery tourism

• ‘It’s less intimidating, less vulnerable’: why cooking in company helps us to talk

• Ireland is one of the best countries in the world in which to produce food

• The hottest new social scene might be a book club

• Bitter truth: Why has chocolate become so expensive?

Scrolling

• As I know all too well, every book has mistakes in it, no matter how many professional eyes passed over it, but this one, in the new Every Day with Babs cookbook, is pretty bad

• Bookmarks found in books returned to the Glasgow School of Art library

• Loewe’s tomato clutch is finally here

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.📚