Lifestyle writers have proclaimed, as a result of tough economic times, that potlucks are in style. But we at Bunch have always had mad love for the potluck! Because a potluck is the best way to hang with large groups of friends and their kids without having a nervous breakdown cooking. And there’s something about sharing favourite dishes with people we really dig that just does it for us. In June, Patricia Leigh Brown wrote a piece for the New York Times Magazine about the totally inspiring Oakland California neighbourhood potluck, First Wednesdays. Held on the first Wednesday of every month for 18 years and counting, folks lucky enough to live in this neighbourhood know that the potluck is coming up when they receive an index card in their mailbox with the words “First Wednesday” scrawled in magic marker. Kids grow up at First Wednesdays, people get old, get married, go away to school, have kids, have more kids. Some people move away but come anyways. It’s a rich tradition that makes a lot of sense in lean times or anytime. So if you’ve get something like this going in your neck of the woods, let us know and we will continue to spread the gospel of potluck. Yum.
