Today, Spotify Wrapped, the music streaming platform’s annual summary of its users’ personal listening habits, turns nine years old. Throughout Wrapped’s existence—and its sustained clutch over your most online friend’s (now private) Instagram story—we’ve learned two things: One, nobody’s cool. We’re all spending hundreds of minutes listening to some “Espresso”-like anthem whose origin story begins on the “Growth” slide of a record label’s quarterly business report. Two, putting numbers to what we consume is fun, sometimes embarrassing, and always revealing.
So we’re going to try it with food—specifically with what’s eaten and drank in our four test kitchens, the Food52 staff kitchen, and at our community events. After working with the two people—Allison, our Test Kitchen Director, and Lauren, our HQ manager—responsible for executing our often chaotic grocery requests, we were able to put together our version of an annual consumption report. Presenting: Food52’s 2024 Grocery Bill, Wrapped. Read More >>