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Hi there!

Are you hanging out somewhere like a Greek octopus on a stick?

Hope you’re having a great summer.

We’re keeping it light, here. Still some spicy readings ahead.

Piero

Screenshot from Sam Youkilis. Pre-order his book here

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THE BEST QUOTE

✦ M.F.K Fisher, food writer. She was the real #booktok.

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THE BOOK

Food to make your heart beat faster

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Setting the table for two and focusing on someone special are two of the best things one can do in life. Bre Graham’s cookbook (★recipes) may look simple, but it reminds us how all good things start: from very small.

Table for Two by Bre Graham
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❍ OnlyPans
This is where Secret Breakfast picks juicy content from food creators

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RANDOM ACTS OF HUNGER

This is the space where I share some food (un)related stuff of my week

🍜The process of making Japanese fake food, in video 🐻I tried to make eight dishes from The Bear. It nearly broke me 🍔 The ‘Depression Burger’ of Route 66 🍫Papantla is the birthplace of vanilla, but Mexican vanilla has almost disappeared 👩🏻‍🎨People Making Wildly Impressive Art With Food — Using Potatoes, Egg Shells, and More 🍝People Walk 20 Miles Overnight to Eat This Pasta in Sardinia 🍹So you need a Rotovap to make a good cocktail 👅Expanding Your Palate Can Help You Live Longer 🇬🇧The Cheapest Michelin Star Restaurants In London ☠️Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas 🙊The Low-FODMAP Diet, Explained (it stands for fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols)

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FOOD FOR LATER

How Modernity Made Us Allergic
Theresa McPhail / Noēma

“There are, unsurprisingly, multiple theories about the cause. The hygiene hypothesis is one front-runner, positing that people who are “too clean” develop allergies. Many others think it’s our diet, that changes in the way we grow and prepare food have altered our gut microbiome, fueling allergies. Still others argue that manmade chemicals and plastics we encounter daily are making our immune systems more irritable”.

How Cooking Videos Took Over the World 
The New York Times

A multimedia feature from Seventies’ Cottage Cheese to nowadays TikTok stars.

➤ Last week's most clicked link was the one about the “Life Dinner”, that could save your relationship. And that's all for today.