Wild Archives — The Common Table

Essentially Local Slippurinn

4. September 2024
8 minute read

Chef Gísli Matt’s restaurant Slippurinn is on a tiny Icelandic island buffeted by trade winds in the middle of the Atlantic. We discussed decolonising island cuisine and whether “local fine dining” is an oxymoron or an answer.

Far From the Madding Cows

19. January 2023
14 minute read

Am I a farmer? A grazier? A conservationist? Fifth-generation tenant farmer Frankie Guy talks about her struggles as well as her joys farming beef on Salisbury Plain in England.

Terroir, Taste & Place

16. November 2022
9 minute read

Can a place really have a taste? Of course it can, it's all about the balance between the human and non-human and appreciating the big picture says sommèliere, gastronome and food writer Ursula Heinzelmann.

The Milk Trekker

12. August 2022
10 minute read

Cheesemaker Trevor Warmedahl visits Tushetian herders in the pastoral highlands of the Caucasus to learn about their adaptive relationship with landscape, livestock and indigenous microbes.

Foraging As Resistance

19. March 2022
13 minute read

Artist film-maker Jumana Manna's new film "Foragers" is about the criminalisation of herb-picking culture in Palestine and Israel. An exclusive interview for The Common Table by Sophia Hoffinger.

What is Us?

27. May 2021
6 minute read

Welcome to the extended landscape of the human microbiome. Designer Philipp Kolmann introduces us to the collaborative relationships between bodies, cultures, food and microbes.

Fish Tales

26. March 2021
5 minute read

Camilla Crosta of SKREI Convention talks about the importance of Atlantic cod as a global resource, trading good, foodstuff and cultural influencer past, present and future.