Writing About Food Culture Collective

Writing about FC Collective can be confusing at times (we don’t fit into most boxes). The following guide is provided to reporters to help clarify the purpose, programs, and people at the heart of Food Culture Collective.

Food Culture (FC) Collective, formerly Real Food Real Stories, is a community of play democratizing food culture to feed our collective healing and transformation. We are food workers, culture-bearers, creatives, and co-conspirators who dare to dream of a future where our economies and cultures are shaped by care for the land, waters, and people to which we belong.

Our community is united by a belief that food is culture and foundational to nourishing the systems, values, narratives, and everyday behaviors that shape our world. We use story, art, and experiences to disrupt a culture of extraction and exploitation and collectively reclaim and reimagine our relationships to food.

Food Culture Collective was founded in 2014 as Real Food Real Stories by Pei-Ru Ko, now a member of the FC Collective advisory board. Real Food Real Stories updated its mission in August of 2021 and was renamed Food Culture Collective in June of 2022 to better reflect its identity as a community-rooted culture change project. Jovida Ross is the current director.