Feasty Feast: A brief introduction

Feasty Feast is a project that was born out of the pandemic, but in reality, it started under the name of Gnocchi Night back in Boston. When I moved back after university, and admittedly didn’t have a ton of friends, the monthly dinners were a way to build new friendships. The dinners back then somehow grew as acquaintances became friends, friends invited other friends, and then just as we hit around 50 people in a night, I started from square one again in Berlin.

In Berlin, we had a few dinners where I crammed 20 semi-strangers into my lovely 29 square meter apartment (around 312 square feet). And celebrated Thanksgiving, even if it involved duck instead of turkey. And then the pandemic hit. I longed for that chaotic chatter and the sounds of strangers becoming friends. So I baked a mountain of cookies and shared them with neighbors, friends, and the supermarket staff that kept us so safe throughout the hardest parts of the pandemic.

During the thick of it, I deeply “sheltered in place” and lived out the greatest dreams as a child to watch an infinite amount of movies and television. Inventing these menus and imagining the dinners filled with people again kept me going during the dark and dreary Berlin winter. And once we were all vaccinated, and tested, we started to have these dinners. They started off as small lunches, and grew into The Terminal, the first dinner we had with around 10 people.

At the end of the day, I love to cook for a crowd. To jump in and out of conversations, with the ultimate introvert’s excuse that I need to leave and tend to the food just as I need to recharge.

As we hopefully start to emerge out of the chaos (or deep loneliness?) of the global covid world, I’d love to welcome you into my home. To clink glasses, and feed you absolutely full. But most importantly, to have intense non-screen conversations and laugh until our bellies hurt. All are welcome to the dinner, we’ve just got limited space, so sign up to find out when the next one is up

Cheers,

Julia