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.
Can our food narratives feed our wholeness and joy?
What is wholeness? And how do we lift up food narratives that feed our wholeness in ways that nourish us deeply and witness us in the fullness of our impact? What can we learn from the storied lineage of Black food changemakers about leading with wholeness, care and joy to transform our shared food culture?
These were the questions FC Collective Advisory Board Member, Stefani Renée Medley, brought to the table in a virtual conversation with Black food scholar-activist, Lindsey Lunsford and food media creative, Tiffani Rozier.
Rethinking Food Culture Might Save Us
Excerpted below, in a recent article for the Nonprofit Quarterly, Food Culture Collective’s Director, Jovida Ross, and Narrative Strategist, Shizue Roche Adachi, with cultural strategist Julie Quiroz, talk white supremacy logic in food systems change, witnessing food work as cultural work, embracing narratives of wholeness, and food’s powerful role in transforming culture at large.
Embodied Stories, Simple Values & Food for Narrative Transformation
Narrative and Cultural Strategy leader, Nayantara Sen, and Real Food Real Stories’ Narrative Strategist Shizue Roche Adachi sat down virtually for an expansive conversation on narrative and cultural strategy work in food, agriculture, and movement building. A meaty download, this conversation will be shared as a two-part series. In this first installment, we’ll dive into food’s role in reshaping our understanding of home, belonging, and our collective relationships in this time of social polarization, and what it means to embody transformative narratives as a daily practice.
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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?
