The Foods That Remember Us
There are foods that do not simply sit on the plate. They call us by name. They remember kitchens we have left, hands we can …
ESSAYS RECIPES FOOD STORY STUDIO
Essays, recipes, and conversations about the foods that carry memory, culture, inheritance, and the places we come from.
ESSAYS RECIPES FOOD STORY STUDIO
Essays, recipes, and conversations about the foods that carry memory, culture, inheritance, and the places we come from.
It was the Maultaschen and the Spätzle that brought us together. I spent the winter semester at McGill University in …
BROWSE BY SERIES
THREE PATHWAYS
AT THE TABLE
Conversations recorded at the table – with cooks, writers, teachers, and strangers who have a food story to tell.
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FOOD STORY STUDIO
Prompts, workshops, and conversations that use food as a doorway into memory, migration, and culture. For classrooms, communities, and anyone who wants to tell the story of what they ate and why it mattered.
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FOOD STORY PROMPT
What is a food from your childhood that you could make by smell alone?
FOOD STORY PROMPT
Name a meal that carried you across a border – real or imagined.
FOOD STORY PROMPT
Who taught you to cook without ever giving you a recipe?
There are foods that do not simply sit on the plate. They call us by name. They remember kitchens we have left, hands we can …
On food, friendship, and the hunger to feel at home in someone else’s home There is a guinea pig or rather two, standing between me …
A grandmother, a daughter, and the inheritance carried by food My daughter came home from school with a question: “Did you know Grandpa’s mother? What …
On locked doors, kept promises, and the kindness of strangers I woke up the next morning with the strange, winged gratitude that sometimes follows the …
On kefir, care, and learning to ask for what I actually need My brother carries the world on his shoulders and makes it look like …
It was the Maultaschen and the Spätzle that brought us together. I spent the winter semester at McGill University in Montreal, and booked a BnB …
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