Eating Dirt
Dr masharu is an artist and the founder of the Museum of Edible Earth in Amsterdam. They also like to eat dirt. The Common Table talked to them about geophagy, fetishes, cultural taboos and cultural norms.
The Living Recipe
Chef, writer, student, father, Nathan Farrell addresses the received wisdom of the recipe in formal culinary education. He calls for a decolonised food literacy taught in a way that remembers without freezing and transforms without erasing.
A Taste for Microplastics
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.
Food Design, It’s Complicated
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.
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.
Change the (Design) System
A conversation with Systems Change Designer Ashley Scarborough about how she redesigned her own professional path and found food systems as her medium.
The Capacity to Evoke
Food and food systems are emerging as a vital focus of investigative cultural practice. The Common Table talked to curator Meriç Öner, former Director of Salt in Istanbul, who brings her unique perspective to the intersection of food, culture and art.
Gastronativism: Us & Them
Food Studies professor Fabio Parasecoli on gastronativism, the "ideological use of food in politics to advance ideas about who belongs to a community". A conversation about "us", "them", food, politics, and systemic thinking.
Gut Feeling
Dr Vanessa Kimbell is a sourdough baker. educator and food activist. She talks to The Common Table about her very personal healing journey with sourdough, which led to her mission to change systems in the food industry.
