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Stories at the Table
I create talks, workshops, salons, and gathering experiences that use food as a doorway into memory, migration, culture, inheritance, and belonging.
Stories at the Table
A conversation salon on food, memory, migration, and belonging
Part salon, part story circle, part cultural gathering. Ideal for bookstores, libraries, museums, cultural spaces, retreats, and community gatherings.
Sample themes
— The Taste of Home
— Recipes We Inherited, Recipes We Refused
— Food, Family, and the Performance of Belonging
— Migration and the Memory of Flavor
— What We Feed the People We Love
Workshops
Guided workshops using food memory and story.
Food as Story · Writing from the Table · Belonging Through Food Memory · Memory, Migration, and the Meals That Made Us
Speaking & Keynotes
Talks on food, memory, migration, and belonging.
Food Is Never Just Food · The Table as Archive · What Recipes Carry · Belonging, Memory, and the Stories We Eat
Interested in bringing one of these offerings to your community?
I’d love to hear from you.