potluck
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This sounds obvious, but it is astonishing how often a potluck table contains six dishes and one spoon.
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026
When I hear the word potluck, I am transported, with a kind of olfactory immediacy, to the basement of my grandmother’s church.
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026
But I find that I miss, unexpectedly, the culture of the potluck hangout: the casual gathering built around the modest premise that everyone brings something and the group shares.
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026
When people approach store-bought dishes this way, the potluck table becomes much more interesting.
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026
Just like the first time she’d made them for the potluck, the tortillas cooked too fast in Henry’s cheap pans.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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