• Monthly Musings: January, 2024

    Monthly Musings: January, 2024

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    This month, discover Sweden’s most delicious (for my money, and Chef Magnus Nilsson may just agree) flatbread; the latest from Coffee Fest; and new interviews from Designing Coffee. I also take Tatler Magazine on a tour of the world’s best coffee shops. Last month was one of quiet reflection. A few days before Christmas, we…

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  • A Kinfolk Magazine Gathering: L’Esprit de la mer.

    A Kinfolk Magazine Gathering: L’Esprit de la mer.

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    Kinfolk is all about sharing, living, eating, talking, and discussing. Did you know they began as communities of ‘gatherings’: long table meals held across a number of different countries around the world? This spawned the magazine, and they’ve continued the gatherings – themed around their upcoming issues. It is always a small gathering, and they…

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  • The Deli Downstairs Village Party.

    The Deli Downstairs Village Party.

    Here in Victoria Park Village, we aren’t just deli workers, or fishmongers, or bartenders – everyone, customers & workers, are friends. Community like this is rare these days: what makes it perfect is the people. We are a bunch of misfits, as I’ve heard us affectionately called. And everyone is really one big family.

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  • The Victoria Park Village Big Lunch.

    The Victoria Park Village Big Lunch.

    Once a year, one of the main residential streets of our village is shut off to traffic, lined with trestle tables, and decorated with fabric flags. It is the Southborough Rd Big Lunch – and the whole street spends the weekend cooking and putting together menus.

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