Sink your teeth into our digital journal—a collection of dreams, notes, explorations, and meaning-making in the food culture ecosystem, authored & curated by the Food Culture Collective team.

Reclaim Your Harvest Season with A Decolonized Playlist for Hungry Ears
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Reclaim Your Harvest Season with A Decolonized Playlist for Hungry Ears

As we gather in the kitchen and around the table this week, we’re reflecting on the ways food can nourish us on a much deeper level. Food can tether us to the stories of our communities and lineages, offer us a path towards healing and transformation, and nurture a reciprocal relationship with the lands and waters to which we belong. Of course, food can also root us in harmful narratives and practices of extraction, exploitation, and erasure. This harvest season, we’re sharing a bounty of stories that ground us in the former. Stories that gift us with a full-bellied experience of care and the love embedded in acts of accountability and reconciliation…

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What is Cultural Strategy? And How To Seed, Feed & Feel Into A Worldview of Plenty
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What is Cultural Strategy? And How To Seed, Feed & Feel Into A Worldview of Plenty

What does it mean to transform our organization in service of deep, sustainable culture change? And what does it take to cultivate a worldview of plenty? These were the questions RFRS Director of Programs and Cultural Strategies, Nayantara Sen, brought to the table in an expansive conversation on abundance and cultural strategy with long-time friends, guides, collaborators and mentors Julie Quiroz of New Moon Collaborations and Tammy Johnson of TMJ Universe.

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Platforming or Tokenizing? White Supremacy in Food Spaces
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Platforming or Tokenizing? White Supremacy in Food Spaces

Around The Table features informal conversations between Food Culture Collective community members, thought leaders, organizers, and friends in food about the juicy stories and critical conversations we’re chewing on. This conversation took place in the summer of 2021 when Food Culture Collective was known as Real Food Real Stories.

The first post of the series, we’re excited to welcome 2021 RFRS Facilitator Cohort member, Stefani Renée Medley, in conversation with RFRS Executive Director, Jovida Ross. On a Tuesday afternoon in early June, Stefani and Jovida met up around the virtual table to talk tokenization and white supremacy in food spaces, and RFRS’s role and responsibility in shifting these dynamics.

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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?