52 Sundays

An act of rebellion and a delicious carrot and coconut stew

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52 Sundays

This year, one of my acts of activism is dinner. It will happen in my living room, probably with people in PJs, maybe a toilet roll in lieu of a napkin, mostly bowls of food requiring only a spoon.

Every Sunday in 2026, I’m feeding someone.

Not hosting. Not entertaining. Just… feeding.

Let me be clear what this isn’t: it’s not a dinner party. There’s no menu planning, no fancy ingredients. Just showing up counts as participation.

Sunday Supper is soup. It’s salad. It’s wraps assembled at the kitchen counter. It’s a medley of whatever is in season or on special that week.

This is deliberate connection in an age of curated isolation.

Technology has made it so easy to be alone. Not lonely, necessarily we have group chats, we have algorithms serving us content that feels like friendship, we have parasocial relationships with people who don’t know we exist. We have artificial communities that require nothing from us except three seconds of attention and access to our data.

Our phones know us so well now. They know our fears and feed them back to us, amplified. They know our biases and build echo chambers around them. They shape our worldviews, our politics, even our core beliefs, all while making our actual, physical worlds smaller. Why go out when everything you need is here? Why talk to people who think differently when you can surround yourself with people who think exactly like you or at least, exactly like the algorithm thinks you do?

The isolation is structural now. It’s profitable. It’s designed.

And I’m bored with it. My brain is atrophying, and I have given it to them willingly.

When their motive is to divide and conquer. Being together is activism.

So every Sunday, I’m inviting someone different to my table. Or my couch. Wherever we end up eating.

We’re going to talk about things that matter: love, friendships, food, politics, art, fashion, travel, whatever rises to the surface. Or we don’t talk. We can simply coregulate.

This is analog. Breaking bread. Sharing salt. The original social network the one that built civilisations, that started movements and stopped wars, that turned strangers into friends and friends into family.

Real connection is messy and unpredictable and often profound.

That’s exactly the point.

Love as resistance

The best way to fight fear is with love.

I am three Sundays into fifty-two. And these are some of the things I’ve learned: I miss my friends. My kiddo is learning and being exposed to ideas, professions, and ways of thinking that are outside of her current world. When you have a mission, you invite people over that you have surface relationships with. Our calendar is booked up into the next two months. It turns bumping into people into dinner invitations that actually get pencilled in, and neighbours I pass in the street into guests.

I’m not suggesting everyone start 52 Sundays. Your rebellion might look different. Tuesday coffee, Saturday walks. Whatever the shape let’s be together.

But if you want to steal this idea, please do (I ironically came across the idea from a political journalist on Instagram, whose name I have forgottten) Make it yours. Make it easy. Make it sustainable. The goal isn’t perfection; it’s consistency. The goal isn’t impressing anyone; it’s connecting with them.

In 2026, while our feeds get more polarised and our worlds get more filtered and our connections get more artificial, I’m going to keep making soup.

And I’m going to keep inviting people to share it.

One Sunday at a time.

This is how we stay grounded.

This is how we stay connected.

This is how we fight back.

We are more powerful together.

That’s why they are so hell-bent on dividing us.

(Stay tuned for the weekly menu).

This week:

Guest: Dr Megan Burslem

Golden rice- Steamed rice with flaked coconut, lime leaves, ginger, garlic and butter (an adaptation from my cookbook)

Coconut, carrot and sweet potato stew: 1 sautéed onion and sad looking coriander, knob of butter, 1/2 tsp turmeric, grated fresh ginger, 2 carrots, 2 zucchini, 1 sweet potatoes, 1/2 can coconut cream, water. *Recipe below

Mango pudding Ninja Creami (fresh mango, almond milk, coconut sugar and coconut cream served with toasted coconut flakes and crunchy nut cornflakes* a school holiday treat that keeps on giving). You could completely make this with frozen mango and a high speed blender.

You will need:

• 1 onion, diced

• 1 handful of coriander (not essential)

• 1 tablespoons butter

• 0.5 teaspoons turmeric

• 1 tablespoons fresh ginger, grated

• 2 carrots, roughly diced

• 2 zucchini, roughly diced

• 2 small or 1 large sweet potato, cubed

• 200ml coconut cream

• 2 cups water

Steps

Sauté the aromatics: Melt 1 tablespoons butter in a large pot over medium heat. Add onion until softened and translucent, about 5 minutes. Roughly chop coriander (if using) and add to the pot.

Add spices: Stir in 0.5 teaspoons turmeric and 1 tablespoons fresh ginger, grated. Cook for another minute until fragrant.

Add vegetables: Add carrots, zucchini and sweet potato. Stir to coat everything in the spiced butter.

Simmer the stew: Pour water. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer until the sweet potato is tender about 20 mins. Then stir through the coconut cream.

Serve: Taste and adjust seasoning with salt and pepper. Serve in bowls with crusty bread or over rice.

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