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Jon Randell Smith's avatar

Amazing. God bless her what a sweetheart

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Steph from food/play/food's avatar

Loved this so much!

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sarah duignan, phd's avatar

aw thank you, steph!

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Devin Kate Pope's avatar

This is so lovely! I’m going to have my son (10) read it too, he’s wanting to play Minecraft

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sarah duignan, phd's avatar

oh amazing! let me know how he finds the game, it’s definitely more peaceful than i thought it would be haha

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Michael Rance's avatar

This is so great — i also (occasionally) play minecraft and she did an excellent job of describing how food works in the game!!

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sarah duignan, phd's avatar

thanks, michael! she only started playing in july so i was pretty blown away at her grasp!

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Michael Rance's avatar

wow, only since July!? i feel like it took me 5+ years to figure out those recipes (but also, i’m also old)!!

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sarah duignan, phd's avatar

hahah she’s also of the iPad as school generation, so likely some neuro advantage to learning new tech who knows 😂

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Nicholas Gill's avatar

I love this :)

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sarah duignan, phd's avatar

thanks, nicholas! it was a lot of fun to do :)

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Nicholas Gill's avatar

My 10-year old son is also really into Minecraft and is suddenly really into cooking and I’m pretty sure that it had a lot to do with it.

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sarah duignan, phd's avatar

yeah that makes sense to me! it’s cool that it transfers to an interest in the process rather than end product

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