Fete Lifestyle Magazine November 2016 Food Issue | Page 33

Office potlucks, barbecues with friends, dinner parties other couples … what used to be great sources of anxiety, are now a few of my favorite kinds of get togethers.

My social anxiety over these gatherings didn’t come from the social part. It was the question, “what are you going to bring?”

Admittedly, I’m no

domestic goddess.

Kitchen tasks have

never been my

forte, nor have they

ever really interested

me. I meet women who

enjoy experimenting

with recipes and

coming up with

baking creations that

are as equally dazzling

to the eye as they are to the taste buds. Thank goodness these people exist for the professional taste tester in us all - there would be much less enjoyment in life without them.