About 🍓5 Cool Things
💖 A weekly taste of joy, curiosity, and reflections served up by your favorite community food museum.
Every Friday, we add a sweet treat to your inbox with 🍓 5 Cool Things, a joyfully curated collection of the most delightful, surprising, and meaningful food and cultural stories we found that week. Get ready for a delicious mix of:
✨ Personal reflections from our founder
🎥 Fun videos + gifs
📚 Amazing book and podcast recs
🧠 Bite-sized history and cultural stories
🎉 The latest from our programs, events, and exhibits
🍽️ Activities + tools for building more connection in your life
✍🏽 Who’s writing this?
🍓 5 Cool Things is a program of the Museum of Food and Culture, a virtual and pop-up community-based museum on a mission to inspire curiosity, creativity, and connection through food stories.
This series started as a passion project for our Founder & Executive Director, Rachel Waugh, a self-proclaimed food nerd whose obsession with 🥞 eating and 🥘 cooking led her from a middle school catering business to a Master’s in Food Studies with a plan to create this very museum.
We believe that food can build bridges across differences. This newsletter is our way of sharing that belief—with heart, humor, and lots of gifs.
💌 What our readers say
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“I save these to read every Friday afternoon to start my weekend off right!”
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🫐 Help spread the joy!
This newsletter is free to read, thanks to our incredible community of donors.
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Together, we’re building a community of food nerds who believe that the stories we share—and the meals we eat—can bring us together. Share the newsletter and join us in the comments section and chat!
