How food might help us navigate the digital divide

• Clydebank
• We keep finding new ways to eat together.

Is a shared love of food enough of a connection point to motivate complete strangers to not only bond in a comments section but also actually get together in real life? That’s the question being asked around the country at de facto conventions like the one organized by Joy Wilson, the writer behind Joy The Baker. According to a recent story in The Atlantic, the only common element for participants in a weekend of cooking and eating, Homefries U, is that they’re all readers of Wilson’s blog, a daily and intensely personal ode to baking and cooking.