What we will explore together:
- Food folklore as cultural memory and seasonal guidance
- Cooking and shared meals as practices of healing and reconciliation
- Ancestral food knowledge as medicine, protection, and emotional regulation
- The continuous relationship from soil and water to table
- Food as a social binder across generations and cultures
- Migrant cuisines and the layered souls of contemporary cities
- Culinary story exchange as a pathway for intercultural healing
This is not nostalgia. It is urban regeneration through embodied memory.
Why this matters
In a time of social fragmentation and ecological disconnection, food offers an everyday, accessible way to:
- restore relationship with place
- strengthen belonging and civic identity
- reopen dialogue across cultures
- reconnect abstract sustainability with lived practice
Key question we will hold:
How can stories of food – rooted in soil, water, ritual, and memory, support healing, reconciliation, and the reawakening of the Soul of the Place?
If you work with cities, communities, culture, wellbeing, regeneration, or simply care about the places you live in — this conversation is for you.
Join us. Bring your curiosity. Bring your stories.
