Makers Archives - The Common Table

Choc Off the Old Block

10. June 2021
6 minute read

KUFstudios make luxury chocolate bars that at first glance look more mineral than edible but taste extraordinary. They aim to use their BRIK confections as an educational tool and aid to rethinking business, responsibility and luxury.

Dream Confections

21. May 2021
4 minute read

The cake maker and food stylist Sarah Hardy, aka Hebe Konditori, talks cake, films, fairytales and dairy-free food for the gods with baker and blogger Fiamma Aleotti.

Carbon Pawprint

30. April 2021
6 minute read

The Berlin-based company Eat Small has created a dog food range made from insect-based protein that offers a more circular alternative to our outdated meat system.

One Lifts All

14. April 2021
6 minute read

Thalia Bassim, a visual artist from Beirut, is looking for signs of hope in a country in economic freefall. She met with Bahaa, a small farmer entrepreneur, to talk about exploring ways around the system.

Food Activates Illustration

31. March 2021
5 minute read

Karen Lacroix, founder of the Illustration School in Porto, explains how food as a medium can activate practice in illustration to promote collective effort to face systemic challenges.

Layers of Tradition

3. March 2021
8 minute read

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

Emails from Beirut

28. January 2021
7 minute read

Thalia Bassim is a visual artist from Beirut. She writes to us from a land famed for its farming for over 5,000 years as she and her fellow citizens struggle to stand up and keep going.

A Different Kind of Local

28. January 2021
10 minute read

Sofi is a new artisan bakery that is part of increasingly noticeable food revolution taking place in the Berlin gastro scene. We asked to talk to the manager Sören Zuppke.