Sink your teeth into our digital journal—a collection of dreams, notes, explorations, and meaning-making in the food culture ecosystem, authored by the Food Culture Collective team, curated & edited by Ada Cuadrado-Medina.
What if we nurtured our creativity instead of fear?
Savoring a bite of leftover stew, I find myself wondering—what if we nurtured our creativity instead of our fear as a way to move through this time of upheaval?
We are co-creating with the world around us.
In a multigenerational commitment to liberation for all, the work is just beginning. Amidst the grief and uncertainty this season brings, I am keen on noticing moments when I feel most energized, resourcing myself for the long game. Quiet time with ancient trees, stories of the future as prayer, and gathering with beloved community.
My perspective is expansive these days—holding visions of a future of liberation for all, as well as the glimmers of liberation that are all around me. The stories we share are a powerful portal for this kind of time travel.
How does multigenerational story ground us in our responsibility to each other?
Yesterday, I found myself fixated on the sky in the marshlands of Heron Bay, looking for comfort and answers to the anxiety and uncertainty of this election season, a time of so much change.
In Heron Bay, time blurs. It’s a landscape that contains multitudes of stories—marshlands teeming with life, colonial settlements, the rise and fall of extractive and toxic industries, and a return to people tending to this ecosystem and to each other. These stories are sacred because they are part of the larger story of the life of this place and everything in it.
Even now, with all that is crumbling around us, this larger story has the capacity to heal and move us towards thriving by weaving the past, present, and future together.
Choosing Hope Over Dystopia
What is possible when we share stories of hope and joy over stories of doom and gloom? We’re living through a time of escalating crises, inundated with narratives rooted in our worst fears. We know what we don’t want. But what if we made more space for imagining the world we actually do want to create for those who come after us? And how might we start building that future together? How might our storytelling be part of our food and climate solutions?
Back in April 2024, Tory Stephens of Grist‘s Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction Series, and Ada Cuadrado-Medina of Food Culture Collective chatted on IG Live about the power of choosing hope over dystopia in stories about our collective future.
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Black Food, Love + Liberation
Black Food, Love & Liberation is an ongoing series curated by our Digital Culture Fellow, Ugoada Ikoro. Each week, Ugo captures stories of joy, beauty, community care, and thriving (beyond surviving) hidden beneath mainstream narratives shaping Black foodways and our relationships to the land.
Around the Table
Our Around The Table series features informal conversations between food workers, thought leaders, elders, organizers, and creatives about emergent insights in food culture. Together, we sink our teeth into the juicy stories, live questions, and critical conversations buzzing in food and culture spaces.
Postcards from 2050
We invited Food Culture Collective community members to imagine forward with us—to a future rooted in care and belonging. Where our food culture is defined by reciprocal relationships and is accountable to the land, water, and people to which we belong. Read their postcards from the future here.
In the Test Kitchen
Dig into this collection of articles and think pieces written by Food Culture Collective staff, community members, and friends, focused on the question—how do we transform our shared food culture?
