Epicurely: connecting people through food

Food touches all of us

Wherever I happen to be, I’ve found that people are genuinely happy to share their food traditions and customs. People have emotional connections with food that run deep. These connections are part of who we are. They are part of our personal and cultural identity. Food touches the best in all of us, which is why we’re so open to sharing our food traditions with others. Food evokes warm memories from the past; vivid recollections of our favorite meal as a child, exotic flavors from a memorable trip, the culinary traditions of our home country. Oftentimes, these memories present themselves in full force, transporting us to distant times in an almost unparalleled level of detail. Marcel Proust famously captured these sensations in his novel, In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past).

When from the distant past nothing remains, after the beings have died, after the things are destroyed and scattered, still, alone, more fragile, yet more vital, more insubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us, waiting and hoping for their moment, amid the ruins of everything else; and bear unfaltering, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the immense architecture of memory.

Yet again I had recalled the taste of a bit of madeleine dunked in a linden-flower tea which my aunt used to give me… immediately the old gray house on the street where her room was found, arose like a theatrical tableau…[1]

Like Proust’s madeleine, even the most negligible, the most unexpected treat, has the power to evoke rich involuntary recollections that may otherwise lay dormant for years. Food is deeply rooted in our warmest memories and thus, it’s easy to understand why we feel a sense of pride, an implicit awareness that we’re sharing part of our personal story, whenever we share our food traditions with others.

Food bridges social and cultural barriers. It’s a universal language that connects us regardless of who we are or where we come from.

Epicurely’s Mission

We are on a mission to empower anyone who loves cooking to share their food with others. We want to make it easier for people to organize food-related events and meet others sharing similar interests.  Concretely, we are creating an online marketplace for home chefs to share their creations and spaces with food enthusiasts in their area.

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The team behind Epicurely

Santiago (@SirTeno), Kim (@Kimtaro), Kirk (@McMurrak)

[1] Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (1913) in: À la recherche du temps perdu vol. 1, p. 47 (Pléiade ed. 1954)(S.H. transl.)