What We Mean by Local Culture 🗣️🍷

Rose Thomas here, good evening. ❤️ I cannot believe it, but tomorrow morning we’ll publish the tenth issue of Modo di Bere Magazine!!

Ten weeks in, if you have a moment to reply to this email, we’d love to know what you think so far. :-)

Biodiversity + Linguistic Diversity IS us 🌍

We share drinks and funny proverbs, and I hope it brings you some cheer to see our content. The current political attacks on our interconnected world only renew our focus on stories about people who keep diverse cultures alive across generations and diasporas.

Our publications are the essays you read here every week, the podcast that we publish in English and Italian, and the travel show that’s currently in post-production.

I love making short form video content about local drinks and local sayings, and I plan to keep it up. We don’t have any plans to leave Instagram, for instance. But the last couple of weeks have made it crystal clear that platform-based social media is a rickety way to get the word out about our publications.

In the interests of growing this project to sustainable levels without relying on capricious social media platforms, Modo di Bere is going to need this newsletter in 2025.

Thank you so much for being one of our first 86 subscribers. We’d love to reach 100 subscribers by the end of January.

Would you refer a friend, family member or colleague to subscribe to this newsletter?

🚀 Send them to mododibere.com and let them know what you like about the newsletter!

and if you haven’t visited the site recently yourself, may we announce….

A Shiny New Website

I think my favorite part of creating the website was adding the photos of all the collaborators who have joined me since I started Modo di Bere almost two years ago.

You can read more about Emilia Aghamirzai, Michele Thomas, Giulia Àlvarez-Katz, Luke Krsnak, and our magazine’s guest contributors at mododibere.com/about.

If at any point you’ve been confused about exactly what Modo di Bere is, other than an ambitious project by your friend Rose Thomas, I feel the new site lays out the vision in an easy-to-understand way. I hope you agree!

Big thanks to Michael Sugarman for the site design.

Tomorrow’s Edition

features this month’s commissioned guest contributor, someone fans of the podcast will fondly recognize. The collaborative process of bringing this reported article to you along with the writer and our editor, Michele Thomas, has really brought me to life this week.

Tomorrow’s edition also features a new cartoon. I hope it brightens up your weekend. See you tomorrow!

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