Cultural Foodways

Food is memory. Migration. Resistance. Power.

Here, we trace the threads of ancestors running through kitchens and across borders. Through Basque herding patterns to diasporic cuisines refashioned by colonialism and commerce, we trace how identity, heritage, and history endure in the things we eat.

Cultural Foodways opens the way to gastronomy as a storytelling vessel. Following the trail how food rituals construct a sense of belonging, how preservation is resistance, and how we pass down the culture with our hands, hearths, and harvests.

Topics will cover: Oral histories and intergenerational recipes; Food justice explorations (gender, class, and colonization); Stories of survival, joy, grief, and celebration; and The politics of preservation and adaptation

Maybe it’s a Basque cider ritual or an international discourse around food sovereignty, this is the space for rich, people-focused storytelling. Where food finds soul.