How Sunday Suppers began
Mordechai explains that Sunday Suppers began as a gathering of friends in her apartment, but quickly grew into an international community after she blogged the photos and recipes.
“It just sort of took on a life of its own.”
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Karen Mordechai
Karen Mordechai is a photographer and stylist, and the founder of Sunday Suppers, a Brooklyn-based food community and blog. The venture earned accolades including a 2013 Food and Wine Digital Award. She is the author of the cookbook Sunday Suppers: Recipes + Gatherings, as well as Simple Fare: Fall and Winter and Simple Fare: Spring and Summer.
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Karen Mordechai discusses the origins of Sunday Suppers and demonstrates how to make a seasonal crostini.
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Approaching food through aesthetics
Mordechai shares that she often approaches food from an aesthetic perspective, finding inspiration in the visual beauty and colors found at farmers markets.
“I usually come to food from an aesthetic standpoint, so I love the beauty and the colors”
Design as a guiding force
Mordechai considers design to be an essential undercurrent in her life, shaping everything from how she plates food to the spaces she chooses to inhabit.
“Design is probably an undercurrent in my life and guides me in many things”
The satisfaction of communal dining
Mordechai describes the joy of hearing the room fill with conversation and restaurant-like noise once guests sit down to dinner.
“we stand in the kitchen and we hear the roar that sounds a lot like a restaurant”
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