Food for Thought - The Gift of a Gathering

Food for Thought - The Gift of a Gathering

The F2P clan hasn't exchanged Christmas gifts with each other and with others for many years now. If we’re invited somewhere—which we feel privileged to say is common place for us during the Holidays—we bring something the hosting party needs for the evening, and we ask what that might be ahead of time. It never fails because there’s always something.

And it’s no different when we play host. We prefer not to receive gifts and, when we do, we’re delighted that people bring food stuffs and not consumer goods that adds to the clutter we would prefer not to have in the first place.

How, then, do we celebrate during the Holidays?

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Shop Like The French. You'll Eat Better Food For Less.

Shop Like The French. You'll Eat Better Food For Less.

The French are known for their understanding of various important aspects of life:

  • Food
  • Wine
  • Love
  • ...and Fashion

What I want to focus on for now are the top two: food and wine. That being said, I'm also passionate about the other two, but we'll leave those for another day.

Having had the opportunity to travel to France a few times, I'm coming to realize that I'm increasingly behaving like the French now that I work from home...at least when it comes to shopping for, preparing and eating food.

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