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Simply put, this is a newsletter about how and why we choose to suffer. If you enjoy philosophical musings and an occasional recipe that makes you question your life and if any of the choices you’ve ever made were genuine, you’ve come to the right place! This newsletter is here to make visible all the things you would’ve preferred not to know, notice, or examine, and soon after reading you will wonder to yourself why exactly you committed to such a state of suffering for such little return.

Want to read* 1,000 or so words of an existential crisis every few weeks? Continuously contemplate the possibility our brains are actually in vats, falling deeper into a simulated hellhole? And somehow, incredulously, uncover all these conundrums always have something to do with food?

Well, you can’t really knock it until you try it — amirite?

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*Starting April 2024, I will include voiceovers in my newsletters, treating all subscribers to a voice that randos on the internet described as “needing to drink more water.”

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Jenny is a professional chef, author, and educator who studies how food shapes human meaning-making and identity development. Her full biography, past work, and lectures are available at www.jennydorsey.co.