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.
What’s possible when we collectively embrace the wisdom revealed by apocalypse?
What transformative pathways emerge when we unearth the wisdom revealed by apocalypse? The Latin root of Apocalypse means, “to reveal; to uncover.” Usually, this is interpreted to mean something dreadful is revealed. But what if what's revealed is our inherent wholeness, mutuality, generosity and connection? How might we unearth practices to compost empire and seed more liberatory, thriving futures?
These were some of the questions that Food Culture Collective’s Advisory Council Member, ancestrally-taught chef, writer, and death doula, Yana Gilbuena Babu, brought to the table on July 18th, with Boricuir food justice organizer, writer, farmer and co-founder of Cuir Kitchen Brigade, Lucecita Cruz, and Native Hawaiian Zen Priest and movement strategist, Norma Wong.
How Frances Albrier watered seeds of Black liberation from Tuskegee to Berkeley
Our ancestors are portals that invite us to know Earth’s deep wisdom…
Following in the footsteps of her grandmother, who’d instituted the Mother’s Club of Tuskegee—along with Mrs. George Washington Carver and Harriet Tubman— Frances carried seeds saved from her predecessors to plant a flourishing garden of her own in the East Bay. She propagated Black communities nourished by intentional love, care, and cooperative models of collective agency – where everyone got an opportunity to eat.
How did Black women sow community healing & care into East Bay foodways?
Generation after generation, Black women have answered the inner stirrings of their spirits by radically dreamscaping pathways to surviving the throes of racial terror, brutality, and oppression.
These promptings are like seeds burrowed deep within us as the unspoken, yet ceaseless call to action of revolutionary self-love and collective caretaking. They have been nourished in me by the mothers who nurtured my blossoming long before my arrival.
The legacy of love that has tilled and ripened the grounds of community care in abundance was woven into the women that gave rise to Black Women’s Clubs of the 20th century…
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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?
