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Happy New Year’s Eve, Sidekick readers. Wins and (more) losses aside, we made it. Don’t forget to chill your Champagne early. Cheers!

— Rachel Cantor

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2020 has seen it all: a crowdsourced Ratatouille musical, Zillow surfing, tie dye, face masks as a fashion statement, Dalgona coffee, and Ina Garten’s human-sized cosmopolitan. Here are a few of my favorite 2020 trends:

All things comfort: sweatpants, comfort food, loungewear anywhere and anytime, weighted blankets, and feel-good films.
The low booze movement: apéritifs are in. Have I mentioned how much I love Haus and its forward-thinking, passionate founders?
Jigsaw puzzles: Puzzling has become one of my favorite weeknight wind-downs. Plus, they make great wall art. My top two puzzle brands: Jiggy and Whiled.

Brain Food

Read

If you can’t tell already, I’m an optimist who’s always channeling positive vibes. Here’s a list of books that got big name authors through this year.
Social media fails.
The best cookbooks of 2020. Very glad to see Dessert Person on this list. I want to whisk my way through this baking bible, if anyone wants to take on this 2021 challenge with me.
The memes that helped us make sense of this “unprecedented time” (hopefully the last time you hear that).

Listen

100 outstanding podcasts this year. There’s a lot to catch up on this break.
If 100 podcasts are too overwhelming, start with these 10 shows.
The best songs of the year. I discovered some cool new music from this list.

Watch

The moods of 2020 captured by TikTok. Very accurate.
The best films of 2020, ranked by Tomatometer.
Have you watched all 15 of these TV shows from this year?

Good Eats

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It’s practically impossible to pick my favorite recipe of 2020. But if I had to choose, I would pick Claire Saffitz’s soft and crispy focaccia from her cookbook, Dessert Person, which I mentioned above. Also, here are NYT Cooking’s 20 most popular recipes of 2020.

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Try It, Buy It

Try It

Pop quiz: How much of the decade do you remember? I...did not do well on this.
Typography: Arial is for chumps. Here are 100 of the best free fonts.
Stream: The 15 best video games of 2020.
App store: The 26 best new apps to stay organized, cure Zoom fatigue, and zone out.

Buy It

Hydrate: My Hydro Flask is practically my lifeline. I guess it’s just a water bottle, but there’s something kind of magical and cultish about it.
Moving and grooving: I hopped on the biker shorts bandwagon early, and now it’s a Rachel signature. My top picks: the Beyond Yoga Spacedye and Alo High-Waist biker shorts. Both are super comfy and hug your skin.
Chef’s kiss: This might come as a shocker to some of you, but a casserole dish is not only for casseroles. It works for kugel, malted brownies, chicken pot pie, bread rolls, and salted caramel bread pudding, and that’s why my one true love is my Great Jones Hot Dish.

Eye Candy

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Is this a bunny or a stuffed animal?

Till 2021.

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Rachel

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