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A recent study identified loneliness as a growing public health epidemic (https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/priorities/connection/index.html). One of the recommendations was to "Build a culture of connection” inspired an initiative called Project Gather (https://v3-projectgather.getbento.com/). Its goal is to reintroduce Americans to eating together, in whatever form that takes: a shared scone at Starbucks, a family visit to a taco truck, a neighborhood cookout, a Friendsgiving dinner. A newly released “Recipes for Connection” (https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/recipes-for-connection.pdf), a hospitality handbook, that presents suggestions, scripts and support for would-be hosts, rather than recipes, which would be counterintuitive.
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