The Common Table By Studio

Gastronativism: Us & Them

- Systems
- Agency
- Community
- Education
- Legacy
- Policy
- Viewpoint

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.

Territorial Stomachs & Other Future Foodscapes

The Future Foodscapes Research Unit rethinks the future of the planetary food system through research and speculative projects, one of which explores the viewpoint of the kitchen as an externalised stomach.

Gut Feeling

- Education
- Kitchen
- Microbiome
- Systems
- Viewpoint

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.

Inside Story: Food Behind Bars

- Education
- Agency
- Kitchen
- Systems

Chef Natalia Middleton from the non-profit Food Behind Bars talks about about control, mental health, monopolies in the British prison system and creating change through food.

Essentially Local Slippurinn

- Legacy
- Community
- Kitchen
- Wild

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.

Serendipity and Gastrophysics

Professor Charles Spence is an experimental psychologist who popularised the term gastrophysics. The Common Table talked to him about serendipitous encounters and food that makes you cry.

Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

- Storytelling
- Makers

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

Urban Fungi Farm

- Systems
- Agriculture
- Technology
- Waste

Food startup expert Eldad Arnon is the co-founder of the gourmet urban mushroom farm Tupu in Berlin. TCT talked to him about the realities of sustainable urban food production and his vision for changing how we produce food.

Redesigning Rural Relations

- Systems
- Agriculture
- Legacy
- Makers

Designer and artist Anastasia Eggers' rethinking of the farmers' almanac Migrating Seasons is one of 16 projects in a new book exploring narratives for existing, disappearing and emerging relationships in the countryside.