Serendipity and Gastrophysics

Professor Charles Spence is an experimental psychologist who popularised the term gastrophysics. The Common Table talked to him about serendipitous encounters and food that makes you cry. 
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On Food & Education: Jeremy Coller

Jeremy Coller, the founder of the FAIRR Initiative explains how teaching investors more about the global food industry has the potential to effect significant change.
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On Food & Education: Rich Shih

Koji and fermentation expert and co-founder of the Kojicon conference Rich Shih talks about teaching people how to access their lost knowledge of food fermentation.
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On Food & Education: Noa Kekuewa Lincoln

Noa Kekuewa Lincoln, indigenous cropping systems expert at the University of Hawai'i, explains how core human values are deeply embedded in food and agriculture and that there is much to learn from island diversity and resilience.
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Marije Vogelzang: Sharing Lunch Tokyo; 40 strangers connected by the tablecloth and by sharing food, 2017. Photo: Kenji Masunaga, courtesy Marije Vogelzang.

On Food & Education: Marije Vogelzang

The Dutch eating designer and educator Marije Vogelzang, former head of Food Non Food at the Design Academy Eindhoven, one of the world's first food design degree departments, talks about teaching the eating human being.
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On Food & Education: Jonathan Deutsch

Jonathan Deutsch is the founder of the Drexel Food Lab in Philadelphia, where the culinary studies programme he designed is about culture, gastronomy, food science, business, food design, and also cooking.
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On Food & Education: Namukolo Covic

Agriculture and nutrition expert and facilitator of dialogue processes, Namukolo Covic on the path back to delivering a diverse and healthy plate in African countries.
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Photograph of people operating an African American soul food booth at the Texas Folklife Festival. There are three people behind a counter that has various warming trays filled with food. There is a woman in front waiting for her food to be served.

On Food & Education: Scott Alves Barton

Scott Alves Barton is a cultural anthropologist of African diasporic food ways. His goal is to provide tools for engagement to allow people to have agency in knowledge acquisition, decision-making and autonomy about their food.
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