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.
An Ode to the Living Microbiome
The soil smells joyful, fertile, happy. The living microbiome has been regenerated through collective human practices that have finally transcended cultures of dominance and extraction. My generation is witness to the revival of communal land stewardship. It was a struggle earlier on— often clouded with a collective feeling of impending apocalypse as millions of human beings perceived what seemed to be the ‘end of everything’... Only to realize that it was simply the end of dominance, of monocultural thinking and the zombification of our soil. The soil’s microbiome is now a beloved community again.
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.
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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?
