Let them eat cake

"People who love to eat are the best people" - Julia Childs

Anyone who knows me will tell you that I love food a lot more than the average person does! One of the best things about food is that it creates community. My best relationships always involve crazy eating challenges or cooking and sharing meals, and there is nothing I love more than a dinner party!

I'm at a new school this year and one of the ways my class is getting to know each other is by eating together. Every week, at least one person brings in a spontaneously-baked cake into the office to share. We will all break from work and bond over morning tea. Everyone else in the office who sees the cake will always ask if we're celebrating a birthday, but we're not... we just bring cake! It's my favourite thing about the office.

I was so excited to share my cake this week! In fact, my sole motivation for coming to school today was to have carrot cake with my class. Yum!

I am realising that food is a really great way to reach out to others. And I love making it! I will try to share cake with at least one person I don't know. One day I should bake an entire cake to give out to people that I don't know...