The foods
that remember
us

Essays, recipes, and conversations about the foods that carry memory, culture, inheritance, and the places we come from.

Some people cook to get dinner on the table. I cook to make meaning.

On hospital breakfasts, blueberry jam, and the woman who told me to begin. When I walked into the hospital room, she looked as if my arrival might make things worse......

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At the Table

Conversations about the foods that shaped us.

Cooks, writers, teachers, artists, and memory-keepers — recorded at the table, talking about food, migration, memory, and the meals they carry.

Featured conversation

Lunchclub with Nadia
— on food, memory, and the table we share

Food Story Studio

Turning food memories into stories, conversations, and shared understanding.

Prompts, workshops, and conversations that use food as a doorway into memory, migration, and culture.

Food Story Prompt

What is a food from your childhood that you could make by smell alone?

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