Sowing Seeds of Hope in Ukraine
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’
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?
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?
BEANS; PEAS NUTS. AND SITTING
Stanley Green campaigned on a corner of Oxford Street in London between 1968 and 1993. A strange story about diets, moral commitment, sitting and lust that may also be a lesson in resilience.
The Last Harvest
Dr Debal Deb and The Last Harvest is a documentary about one man's decades-long battle to rescue India's indigenous rice diversity from oblivion. Journalist Dan Saladino visits Basudha Farm in Odisha, to learn about how he is building a sustainable legacy.
The Burnt Chef Revolution
Kris Hall is the founder of The Burnt Chef Project, an internationally networked organisation helping people in the hospitality industry with their mental health, whilst offering training and counselling to create healthier workplaces. An interview by Ševko Topčić.
The Future is Ancestral
An agricultural collective called Arca Tierra supplies 50 city restaurants as well as locals with fresh food by reviving ancestral agriculture practices in the Chinampas wetlands near Mexico City. The Common Table spoke to the farm coordinator Sebastián Herrera, about finding what was lost.
The Honey Merchant
Diego Contreras is a biologist and honey expert from the uniquely biodiverse region of Oaxaca. His project Nunduve aims to educate consumers about honey's origins and environmental issues, rather than just its flavours and uses.
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.
