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Everyone had an epiphany type moment during the COVID Lockdown of 2020.  The slow down made us reorganize our priorities and do a Marie Kondo look at what sparks joy! What I realized is as much as I LOVE to eat and discover restaurants and foodie pleasures.  I’ve never actually been fully engaged with the “Tine” (tines of a fork) part of Tinsel and Tine.  When I started the site in 2010 it was going to be a place where I go to dinner and a movie and review both in a post. For various reasons that never really worked out; so I thought I could split the difference and write/cover some foodie posts and some movie posts. And perhaps feature a lot of foodie films or food related docs.  And I did manage a bit of all that but… READ MORE

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