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.
What if we reimagined food culture by embracing our roles as future ancestors?
What does it mean to be a future ancestor? What does it mean to feed a liberatory relationship to food, rooted in joy and care for ourselves and our future descendants? What can we learn by embracing both the joy and the fight in this work?
Tune into this juicy conversation about embracing our roles as future ancestors to cultivate a boldly reimagined food culture with Food Culture Collective’s Narrative Strategist, Shizue Roche Adachi, Tlingit food activist, chef and urban farmer Kirsten Kirby-Shoote of i-collective, and Nigerian-American chef and multimedia artist, and founder of Black Feast, Salimatu Amabebe.
Who is Food Culture Collective?
Living in a dominant culture of exploitation and extraction, to collectively imagine, nourish, and play are powerful forms of resistance and reclamation: we play with our food to reimagine our world. This is why we call ourselves Food Culture Collective. Our name is an affirmation, an invocation, and an invitation: we are all culture-bearers, and we can all feed a food culture that nourishes our collective healing and transformation. But we can only do it together.
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.
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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?
