How to Feed the World Responsibly

  • 18. May 2026
  • 12 minute read
Tara Shyam is Executive Director of Regen10, a global initiative to support the transition to an inclusive, regenerative, and equitable agrifood systems, and it just published a roadmap. A conversation about sharing responsibility as well as direction.
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Photo © Rachel Tan, courtesy Ivan Brehm & Nouri restaurant

Remove the Arbiters of Taste

  • 1. May 2026
  • 14 minute read
Michelin-starred chef Ivan Brehm worked at Per Se, Mugaritz, and The Fat Duck, before opening his own restaurant, Nouri, in Singapore in 2017. He shares his thoughts about artifice, agency, and the unsustainable game fine dining has become.
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SOS: Who’s Saving Our Soils?

  • 16. March 2026
  • 4 minute read
The EU Soil Strategy for 2030 was launched in November 2021 as part of the European Green Deal. Its first law, the Soil Monitoring Law, went into force in December 2025. But is it enough to save our soils and ourselves?
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The Future is Ancestral

  • 12. February 2026
  • 12 minute read
An agricultural collective called Arca Tierra supplies 50 city restaurants as well as locals with fresh food by reviving ancestral agriculture practices in the Chinampas wetlands near Mexico City. The Common Table spoke to the farm coordinator Sebastián Herrera, about finding what was lost.
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a squash bee sleeping in a squash flower

The Honey Merchant

  • 29. January 2026
  • 11 minute read
Diego Contreras is a biologist and honey expert from the uniquely biodiverse region of Oaxaca. His project Nunduve aims to educate consumers about honey's origins and environmental issues, rather than just its flavours and uses.
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A Taste for Microplastics

  • 17. November 2025
  • 10 minute read
Microplastic pollution expert Dr Sherri Mason talks to The Common Table about the pervasive presence of tiny plastic particles within the planet’s ecosystems and why we are being encouraged to keep adding more, not less, of them to our food and soils.
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Transparent Tuna

  • 2. October 2025
  • 11 minute read
William Harris talks to Cynthia Asaf of Pacifical about using digital traceability to improve transparency in the Pacific tuna supply chain and why it's a game-changer for the fishing industry.
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Food Design, It’s Complicated

  • 6. August 2025
  • 17 minute read
Can Food Design improve our relationships with food or is it just a grandiose term for decorative plating? Leading voices in Food & Design, Priya Mani, Sonia Massari, Fabio Parasecoli, Laila Snevele, and Sophie Lovell confer at a communal table moderated by our own Orlando Lovell.
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