Mother’s Hand Taste

Jiwon Woo's project explores whether "son-mat", the flavour imparted to fermented foods by families' unique microflora, can be transmitted through generations and across continents.
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I Like to Braai!

Talking to researcher and author Duane Jethro about South African braai culture, heritage-formation, designated tong bearers, settler-colonialism and stereotypes of savagery.
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Primordial Soup

Sandor Katz talks about the importance of microbes to understanding our evolution, our culture, our food and ourselves. Listen here to his seminal paper “Fermentation as Co-Evolutionary Force”.
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What is Local?

"Local" is often used as a buzzword for sustainable practice but its meaning depends on context. Local for whom? A Berlin conversation between Mary Scherpe and Sinthujan Varatharajah.
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Sky Woman’s Daughters

For many Native American communities, family, fertility and collective continuance are rooted in the protection and revitalisation of native seeds, explains Elizabeth Hoover.
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Fish Tales

Camilla Crosta of SKREI Convention talks about the importance of Atlantic cod as a global resource, trading good, foodstuff and cultural influencer past, present and future.
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Recipes for Belonging

Artist and writer Chieri Higa shares her story about visiting her grandmother in Okinawa, hoping to find, through the rituals of food preparation, the connections to who she is and where she is from.
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The Architecture of Hospitality

Architect Merve Bedir talks about kitchen-based processes as tools for collective belonging through Mutfak مطبخ, The Kitchen, a shared space on the Turkish-Syrian border.
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Layers of Tradition

An interview with the Viennese Konditormeister Eduard A. Fruth about a lifetime spent in the multicultural world of traditional Viennese pastries.
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