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.
How Do We Decolonize and Reimagine Food Culture?
What is food culture? And, how do we reclaim and decolonize mainstream food culture to nourish a future rooted in care, healing, liberation and joy? These were the questions RFRS Director of Communications and Narrative Design, Shizue Roche Adachi, brought to the table in a November Around The Table conversation with two acclaimed food leaders and activists who have long been working in the food culture space, Jocelyn Jackson and Rowen White.
Our Around The Table series features informal conversations between RFRS community members with thought leaders, elders, organizers, and friends. Together, we take a deep dive––sinking our teeth into the juicy stories, live questions, and critical conversations buzzing in the food and culture space.
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…
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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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?
