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Through the Lens of Food

Journalist Nathan Thornburgh is the co-founder and publisher of Roads & Kingdoms. He also worked closely with Anthony Bourdain on the Explore Parts Unknown series and the travel podcast The Trip. Here he talks to The Common Table about print as self-care and how food can form the soul.

Eating Dirt

Dr masharu is an artist and the founder of the Museum of Edible Earth in Amsterdam. They also like to eat dirt. The Common Table talked to them about geophagy, fetishes, cultural taboos and cultural norms.

The Living Recipe

- Kitchen
- Education
- Legacy
- Viewpoint

Chef, writer, student, father, Nathan Farrell addresses the received wisdom of the recipe in formal culinary education. He calls for a decolonised food literacy taught in a way that remembers without freezing and transforms without erasing.

A Taste for Microplastics

- Waste
- Agriculture
- Systems
- Viewpoint

Microplastic pollution expert Dr Sherri Mason talks to The Common Table about the pervasive presence of tiny plastic particles within the planet’s ecosystems and why we are being encouraged to keep adding more, not less, of them to our food and soils.

The Ghibli Foodiverse

In the Studio Ghibli foodiverse, food and food preparation is hearth and home, conjuring a sensual state of longing and belonging, says Sophie Lovell

Transparent Tuna

- Systems
- Agency
- Policy
- Technology

William Harris talks to Cynthia Asaf of Pacifical about using digital traceability to improve transparency in the Pacific tuna supply chain and why it's a game-changer for the fishing industry.

Food Design, It’s Complicated

- Education
- Community
- Systems
- Viewpoint

Can Food Design improve our relationships with food or is it just a grandiose term for decorative plating? Leading voices in Food & Design, Priya Mani, Sonia Massari, Fabio Parasecoli, Laila Snevele, and Sophie Lovell confer at a communal table moderated by our own Orlando Lovell.

still from the documentary The Edible Indian by Cass Gardiner showing a Native American family sharing a meal in a forest

The Good Life

- Agency
- Community
- Kitchen
- Legacy
- Storytelling
- Systems
- Viewpoint
- Wild

First Nations filmmaker and curator Cass Gardiner talks to The Common Table about stewardship, reciprocity, the bittersweet aspect of "home", and how she uses food to open a window for non-Native people into her world and community.

Change the (Design) System

- Education
- Agency
- Systems
- Viewpoint

A conversation with Systems Change Designer Ashley Scarborough about how she redesigned her own professional path and found food systems as her medium.

The Honey Merchant