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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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by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Tinsel & Tine’s Look at 3rd in Foodie Film Series For a food and film blog, I have to admit my foodie movie posts are few and far between. Often, I’ll see a foodie film trailer and be like, I’ve gotta get back to that, but the plot doesn’t really pull me into wanting to see it. Not so with this series of foodie travel…

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