Community is a verb

Introducing the Lost Supper Club

Hello friends!

For those of you who celebrated, I hope your Thanksgiving was full of good food and good people and that you are settling into the weekend in a rosy glow of holiday cheer. Preferably there are cookies involved.

I was fortunate to spend the day with some of my favorite people in the Colorado mountains. We ate sushi, played games, and gawked at the postcard perfect view out the windows. If Thanksgiving is about being thankful, I am.

As the year draws to a close, there are 3 things that are coming together for me:

1. A text from a good friend that read, “Time is short and it’s reckless to spend it with the wrong people.”

2. Andrea Gibson
   asking, What is my job in this moment? What do I specifically have to offer?

3. This Essay from

   Michele Peters (she/her)
   where she writes that ‘Ally’ isn’t a label (noun)—it is action (verb). I LOVE this and am adding to it: community is also a verb.

I wrote last week that I know in my bones that what I really need is to gather my community.

So…

Next year, this newsletter will look a bit different

Twice a month, every subscriber will receive the Let’s Get Lost newsletter, which is free for everyone who wants to read it for the entire calendar year.

Just like every issue I published in 2024, next year’s newsletter will include recipes, stories, and photos from our life on the road plus plenty of useful tips and recommendations. (If you’re new here, I invite you to scroll through the archive to see what a typical issue looks like.)

In addition, I invite you to join the Lost Supper Club.

May of 2025 will mark 5 years on the road and one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is that there are good people everywhere. Everywhere.

And yet, I know that many of us also struggle with feelings of being alone. So, the Lost Supper Club is for everyone who:

• is craving connections with people outside their current social circle and also wants to deepen the connections with their own community of friends and neighbors

• is curious about how other people live, what they think, and what their stories are

• loves the idea of learning about the world through the people who live there and the recipes they cook.

Lost Supper Club emails will also arrive in your in-box on Saturday mornings.

Here’s what Supper Club Members will receive:

• Shareable recipes, tips, and ideas from other supper club members for all of you who feel inspired to start your own supper club with friends and neighbors in your community. Think casual, authentic entertaining. Even though I think she’s a badass, I am not trying to be Martha Stewart. I just want to eat good food in the company of people I genuinely like. You too?

• Go inside the kitchens of Supper Club members with recipes, interviews, photos, and videos that showcase food that a particular region is known for, made by the people who live there.

• Opportunities to connect with other Supper Club members from across the U.S. and the world (Let’s Get Lost is currently read across all 50 states and 57 countries!)

• Insider information and recommendations for restaurants, destinations, and fun things to do and see as we travel around the county.

• A 20% discount on the Let’s Get Lost Cookbook, Volume 1, coming out in January! (More about this exciting development later!)

• Supper club members will support and shape the 2025 cookbook project! (More about this later too!)

• Full access to the entire recipe archive. I published over 120 new and exclusive recipes here in 2024! Most of the recipes published throughout the current calendar year are available to everyone, but access to the previous year’s recipes will only be available to paid subscribers.

To put it in three words, the Let’s Get Lost Supper Club is about fostering

1. connection,

2. community, and

3. insight.

The supper club will be for paid subscribers BUT for the entire month of January, it will be free for every subscriber. If you love it there, I hope you’ll stay. 

If you are already sure you’ll love it there (you will! you will!), I invite you to upgrade to a paid subscription and lock in 2024 pricing.

The Let’s Get Lost newsletter and the Lost Supper Club are simply not possible without paid contributions. In order to continue publishing the free newsletter and launch the Supper Club, subscription prices in 2025 will increase to $55 a year and $6/ month.

If you are already an annual paid subscriber, or you become one by the end of this year, you are locked in at the 2024 price ($50/year) forever. No matter what, your subscription price will not increase unless you cancel your subscription.

*Very important: I do not want cost to stand in the way of anyone joining the Lost Supper Club. So…

• If this is something you really want to be a part of but can’t afford it, all you need to do is send an email to me and I will extend a gift subscription, no questions asked. rebecca@rebeccablackwell.com

• If you are in a position where you would like to sponsor someone else’s Supper Club membership, you can purchase a gift subscription for them OR send an email to me to donate an anonymous gift subscription to someone who has requested it. rebecca@rebeccablackwell.com

(For some reason, it’s not possible to give a gift subscription from the Substack app. To give a gift subscription, open a web browser and go to rebeccablackwell.com. Click on this post, then click on the gift subscription button above.)

You can view our 2025 travel schedule here. If you live near any of the places we will visit and would like to connect, please let me know! (rebecca@rebeccablackwell.com)

Thanks for being here, friends. I am looking forward to what we create together next year.

xo

-Rebecca

Remember, if you are a current paid subscriber, your annual subscription price is already locked in and will not increase unless you cancel your subscription. If the Lost Supper Club sounds like something you want to be a part of, subscribe now and lock in your rate.