Sophie & Orlando — The Common Table

How to Feed the World Responsibly

18. May 2026
12 minute read

Tara Shyam is Executive Director of Regen10, a global initiative to support the transition to an inclusive, regenerative, and equitable agrifood systems, and it just published a roadmap. A conversation about sharing responsibility as well as direction.

Farmacy’s Manifesto

12. May 2026
3 minute read

A self-published handbook from a Notting Hill vegan restaurant might seem an unlikely vehicle for a radical food systems manifesto, but Farmacy's Manifesto on the Future of Food makes a compelling, if imperfect, case for regenerative agriculture and the urgent need to rethink how “we” feed ourselves.

Photo © Rachel Tan, courtesy Ivan Brehm & Nouri restaurant

Remove the Arbiters of Taste

1. May 2026
14 minute read

Michelin-starred chef Ivan Brehm worked at Per Se, Mugaritz, and The Fat Duck, before opening his own restaurant, Nouri, in Singapore in 2017. He shares his thoughts about artifice, agency, and the unsustainable game fine dining has become.

Food is Political

14. April 2026
14 minute read

BBC Food Programme presenter Sheila Dillon has spent four decades establishing food as an important, newsworthy subject and breaking big political stories through the lens of food.

Can You Feel The Force?

7. April 2026
7 minute read

From me to we: a biocosmic metaphor in a speculative meditation on humans and holobionts, microbes and midichlorians, Star Wars and storytelling by Sophie Lovell. May the Force be with us.

Sowing Seeds of Hope in Ukraine

28. March 2026
10 minute read

We asked Yuliya Stefanyuk, the World Central Kitchen's Response Director in Ukraine, about WCK's new project distributing of seeds to help those affected by the war grow their own food and rebuild resilience.

Being Human in the ‘House that Pigs built’

20. March 2026
5 minute read

Cooking Sections' new exhibition about intensive pig farming at Denmark's MAPS Museum doesn't just reveal what industrial farming does to a landscape and its people, it also invites them to fight back.

SOS: Who’s Saving Our Soils?

16. March 2026
4 minute read

The EU Soil Strategy for 2030 was launched in November 2021 as part of the European Green Deal. Its first law, the Soil Monitoring Law, went into force in December 2025. But is it enough to save our soils and ourselves?

b/w photo of man walking in a street 1970s

BEANS; PEAS NUTS. AND SITTING

9. March 2026
7 minute read

Stanley Green campaigned on a corner of Oxford Street in London between 1968 and 1993. Sophie Lovell relates a strange story about diets, moral commitment, sitting and lust that may also be a lesson in resilience.