Serving Seagrass on Aegina

Vessel is a creative collective based on the Greek island of Aegina. In 2026, they mapped the underwater seagrass meadows surrounding the island and turned the maps into tablecloths for the local restaurants. 
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Can You Feel The Force?

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

BEANS; PEAS NUTS. AND SITTING

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.
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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.
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The Ghibli Foodiverse

In the Studio Ghibli foodiverse, food and food preparation is hearth and home, conjuring a sensual state of longing and belonging, says Sophie Lovell
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The Good Life

First Nations filmmaker and curator Cass Gardiner talks to The Common Table about stewardship, reciprocity, the bittersweet aspect of "home", and how she uses food to open a window for non-Native people into her world and community.
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Leora Gesser – Stratiography 2, 2017; watercolour, conte, acrylic ink, pastel, and lichen on paper 28 x 40 inches

Eat Dirt

"...get your face in the dirt; cram your mouth and swallow with so much greed you choke yourself, a lump in your gullet like Saint-Exupéry’s snake..." A poem by Christine Knight
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