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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 06/08/2026

The Common Table just turned six. Its founders take stock of their platform and renew their pledge to champion voices for change in humankind’s greatest task ahead: transitioning to a global ecosystem of economies that are decent, fair and safe – through food. thecommontable.eu/what-are-we-...

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 19/05/2026

We just published a wonderfully hopeful interview with Tara Shyam, Executive Director of @regen10.bsky.social an alliance whose mission is to change the entire food system, resiliently, regeneratively and responsibly. Images: @kadirvanlohuizen.bsky.social thecommontable.eu/how-to-feed-...

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 11/03/2026

The Burnt Chef Revolution: In a timely interview, Kris Hall, the founder of The Burnt Chef Project, discusses how he came to found a global mental health support network for the hospitality industry – a professional field renowned for its toxic work environments. thecommontable.eu/the-burnt-ch...

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 11/03/2026

The strange story of WWII veteran Stanley Green, who spent 25 years, from 1968 to 1993, standing on the corner of Oxford Street in London, urging people to adopt a low-protein diet and dampen their passions. Was he a proto-incel or a beacon of resilience – or both? thecommontable.eu/beans-peas-n...

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 20/02/2026

The Future is Ancestral: "They are not farmers anymore; they are the guardians of the environment. They’re keepers of knowledge. What they need to do is not just produce crops, but produce life." thecommontable.eu/the-future-i...

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 16/08/2025

Can Food Design improve our relationships with food, or is it just fancy plating? OxfordFoodSymposium’ Kitchen Table & @thecommontable.eu invited Priya Mani, Sonia Massari, @fparasecoli.bsky.social, Laila Snevele, @sophielovell.com & Orlando Lovell to discuss. thecommontable.eu/food-design-...

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 16/08/2025

We need to talk about Food Design. thecommontable.eu/food-design-...

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 09/06/2025

“One day, while watching them, I thought: what if these birds could cooperate and create their own alphabet?” A multi species food alphabet by @curly_mads. thecommontable.eu/wild-birds-f... #thecommontable #curlymads #wildbirds #wildbirdsalphabet #pictoplasma #foodalphabet #risoprint

Risoprint illustration of two blackbirds playing with a carrot and two other birds forming the letter C with their bodies.

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 09/06/2025

“Every morning, I visit a large urban park near my home to watch birds.” artist @curly_mads tells the story of herWild Birds Food Alphabet. thecommontable.eu/wild-birds-f... Wild Birds Food Alphabet — The Common Table #thecommontable #curlymads #wildbirds #foodalphabet #pictoplasma

Risoprint illustration of birds and nuts and two birds forming a letter N with their bodies.

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 27/03/2025

Just as we understand individual ingredients, like apples or crisps, to be expressions of systems, The Common Table is an expression of a system initiated by studio_lovell. It is designed to be a hospitable space for learning to ask better questions.

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 27/03/2025

The Common Table's founders studio_lovell were invited to co-design an immersive dining experience and give a keynote at the #HotelschoolTheHague for their Future of Food course in Amsterdam. We talked about learning to ask better questions & understanding ingredients as expressions of systems.

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 18/02/2025

Food systems are emerging as a new focus of investigative cultural practice. The Common Table talked to curator and researcher Meriç Öner, former Director at Salt in Istanbul, who brings a unique perspective to the intersection of food, culture and art. thecommontable.eu/foods-capaci...

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 13/02/2025

Embracing food thinking not only facilitates an accessible, inclusive path to understanding and nurturing thriving ecologies by building and maintaining healthy relationships, it is essential to survival.

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 12/02/2025

What if there was a more inclusive way to approach the design process than “design thinking”? One that is based, not on “things” or “problems” but on building and maintaining healthy relationships instead? 1/3 thecommontable.eu/food-thinking/

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 11/02/2025

New newsletter just dropped at The Common Table. Sign up if you would like to receive the next one. thecommontable.eu/newsletter/

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 04/02/2025

A timely conversation with Food Studies professor Fabio Parasecoli on gastronativism (the “ideological use of food in politics to advance ideas about who belongs to a community”) the weaponising of food in politics and systemic thinking in a design context. thecommontable.eu/gastronativi...

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 17/01/2025

“The old world is dying, and the new world is struggling to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” Antonio Gramsci Little monster by @aetherelf.bsky.social

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 10/01/2025

What do you think are the right policy supports to help this transition for farmers and people in the food industry? asks @tabledebates.bsky.social Matthew Kessler of regenerative food systems expert Rupert Simons @systemiq.bsky.social Oxford Real Farmers Conference #ORFC25

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 10/01/2025

Loving this discussion. What do you think are the right policy supports to help this transition? asks @tabledebates.bsky.social Matthew Kessler of agroecologist and agricultural biodiversity expert Emile Frison @ipes-food.org Oxford Real Farmers Conference #ORFC25

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 10/01/2025

What do we need to do right now to move toward a fossil-fuel-free system? @tabledebates.bsky.social 's Matthew Kessler asks farmer Helen Browning @thesoilassociation.bsky.social Oxford Real Farmers Conference #ORFC25

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 10/01/2025

Is a Fossil-Free Food System Possible? What might an agroecological food system look like in practice? Oxford Real Farmers Conference #ORFC25 panel from @tabledebates.bsky.social's Matthew Kessler with Rupert simons, Emile Frison @ipes-food.org and Helen Browning @thesoilassociation.bsky.social

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 10/01/2025

Two devastating sentences stuck in our heads from yesterday's day 1 of the #ORFC25 spoken by agroecologist George McAllister about the destruction of land and farming in Gaza. rooted-magazine.org/2024/08/01/w...

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 09/01/2025

"From Ubuntu to Kapwa: Earth Wisdom and Regenerative Design in Food Systems". The moving close to day one of #ORFC25 with Sonita Mbah, Konkankoh Joshua, Mamerto Tindongan, Margarita Zethelius, Sarah Queblatin, Ati Seygundiba Quigua Izquierdo and Charlotte Dufour.

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 09/01/2025

From the Community, Food, Land, and Nature panel at Oxford Real Farming Conference #ORFC25 chaired by @olliedouglas.bsky.social of @themerl.bsky.social with @jcniala.bsky.social, farmer James Norman, @tallehatenchong.bsky.social & Samwel Nangiria Taresero.

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 09/01/2025

Strong discussion on the Community, Food, Land, and Nature panel at Oxford Real Farming Conference #ORFC25 chaired by @olliedouglas.bsky.social of @themerl.bsky.social with @jcniala.bsky.social , farmer James Norman, @tallehatenchong.bsky.social & Samwel Nangiria Taresero.

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 09/01/2025

Culling Cows and Eating Insects? Unpicking Food and Farming Misinformation: an eye-popping panel talk from @phoebecooke.bsky.social amd @hazelhealy.bsky.social of @desmog.bsky.social with @swimsure.bsky.social especially with respect to the damage being done to the change movement. #ORFC25

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 09/01/2025

@herdyshepherd.bsky.social at #ORFC25 “...I thought farmers were old, grumpy men who knew everything. Now I know that the point of farming is to create a sustainable future. We must resist the idea that farming isn’t important. We must resist the broken food system and empower young people...”

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 09/01/2025

"Saving seeds not as a relic of the past but as a way to survive as a people." Roots of Resistance: Farming in Palestine, powerful panel talk at the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2025 with Muna Dajani, Cathi Pawton of Zaytoun, George McAllister of Gaza Foodways. @dajanimuna.bsky.social #ORFC25

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 30/12/2024

For our On Food & Education series, koji and fermentation expert, and co-founder of the Kojicon conference, Rich Shih talks about teaching people how to access their lost knowledge of food fermentation. thecommontable.eu/on-food-and-...

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 18/12/2024

For our series on food and education, Dr. Johanna Mendelson Forman, an expert on international post-conflict transition issues, explains gastrodiplomacy, conflict cuisine and the role of food as a tool for peacebuilding. thecommontable.eu/on-food-and-...

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 14/12/2024

“Territorial kitchens are externalised stomachs with other dimensions of scale and connection.” The Future Foodscapes Research Unit rethinks the future of the planetary food system through a research compendium & AV reports, one of which is “Territorial Stomach” thecommontable.eu/territorial-...

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 10/12/2024

For the Dubai-based urbanists Ahmed and Rashid bin Shabib, Middle Eastern and North African pigeon towers are indicative of closer human-bird relations of the past and have the potential to inspire renewed forms of coexistence. thecommontable.eu/buildings-fo...

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 07/12/2024

Chef Gísli Matt’s restaurant Slippurinn is on a tiny Icelandic island in the middle of the Atlantic and only opens for a short season. The Common Table talked to him about decolonising island cuisine and whether “local fine dining” is an oxymoron or an answer. thecommontable.eu/essentially-...

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 03/12/2024

“I needed to stop thinking about leavening bread as fermentation and think of it as digestion instead.” Sourdough baker and food activist Vanessa Kimbell talks about her personal journey into sourdough, which led to her mission to change systems in the food industry. thecommontable.eu/gut-feeling/

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 03/12/2024

"Microbial Sovereignty and Panchal Dairy" is a report from cheese nomad Trevor Warmedahl on the marginalised Rabari community in Central Gujarat, India and how a dairy there is working to help support value and autonomy in their pastoral ways through cheesemaking. thecommontable.eu/pastoral-way...

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The Common Table @thecommontable.eu · 03/12/2024

“The flavour of food first comes together in your brain, not in your mouth.” The Common Table talks to psychologist Professor Charles Spence about gastrophysics serendipitous encounters and food that makes you cry. thecommontable.eu/serendipity-...

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