I Like to Braai!
Talking to researcher and author Duane Jethro about South African braai culture, heritage-formation, designated tong bearers, settler-colonialism and stereotypes of savagery.
Choc Off the Old Block
KUFstudios make luxury chocolate bars that at first glance look more mineral than edible but taste extraordinary. They aim to use their BRIK confections as an educational tool and aid to rethinking business, responsibility and luxury.
Primordial Soup
Sandor Katz talks about the importance of microbes to understanding our evolution, our culture, our food and ourselves. Listen here to his seminal paper “Fermentation as Co-Evolutionary Force”.
What is Us?
Welcome to the extended landscape of the human microbiome. Designer Philipp Kolmann introduces us to the collaborative relationships between bodies, cultures, food and microbes.
Salmon: A Red Herring
Cooking Sections is a collective examining the systems that organise the world through food using research-based practices. Their project focusing on salmon farming is currently on show at Tate Britain.
What is Local?
"Local" is often used as a buzzword for sustainable practice but its meaning depends on context. Local for whom? A Berlin conversation between Mary Scherpe and Sinthujan Varatharajah.
Dream Confections
The cake maker and food stylist Sarah Hardy, aka Hebe Konditori, talks cake, films, fairytales and dairy-free food for the gods with baker and blogger Fiamma Aleotti.
The Regenerative Route
Sara Harper and Danielle Schwab on shifting brands and farmers towards regenerative practice, the futility of waiting for legislation, organic greenwashing and the challenge of changing mindsets.
Sky Woman’s Daughters
For many Native American communities, family, fertility and collective continuance are rooted in the protection and revitalisation of native seeds, explains Elizabeth Hoover.
