Storytelling Archives — The Common Table

people sittimg together at a dinner table

Through the Lens of Food

20. January 2026
12 minute read

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.

The Ghibli Foodiverse

10. November 2025
4 minute read

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

still from the documentary The Edible Indian by Cass Gardiner showing a Native American family sharing a meal in a forest

The Good Life

10. July 2025
20 minute read

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.

Wild Birds Food Alphabet

29. May 2025
2 minute read

Artist curly_mads shares the story of her handmade, multispecies food zine.

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

30. July 2024
3 minute read

A retrospective appreciation of Jan Švankmajer’s three-course, 1992, stop-motion film “Food”.

Leora Gesser – Stratiography 2, 2017; watercolour, conte, acrylic ink, pastel, and lichen on paper 28 x 40 inches

Eat Dirt

1. March 2023
1 minute read

"...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

Molding Food Futures

23. August 2022
12 minute read

LinYee Yuan, the founder and editor of MOLD magazine, talks about designing the future of food, working in print and her recent return to place-based practice in the community.

Food in the City

9. August 2022
11 minute read

Jonathan Nunn, the founder of Vittles, talks to The Common Table about his new book with Open City concerning food, architecture, diversity and marginal spaces in London.

Spaceship Hour

2. May 2022
14 minute read

Alone in space, their relationship with the routine of growing food is the only one our protagonist needs, until they make a mistake. A short story by Jimenez Lai.