Culinary Connections - Remembering The Sacredness Of Food
December 7, 2022 in partnership with LAist
Food has the power to connect us all, but the pandemic has taken a severe toll on food systems workers and revealed cracks in the industry overall. How can we use food to heal from our collective trauma and how do we use the insights gained over these most recent years to center the sacredness of food and the making of it? On December 7, join Jocelyn Ramirez (she/her), founder of Todo Verde , as she leads a discussion with women who are working in this space. She’ll talk with Melissa Acedera (she/her), of Polo’s Pantry and Home-y Made Meals , and Across Our Kitchen Tables co-founders Valeria Velazquez Duenas (she/her) and Claudia Serrato (she/her) about the lessons they’ve learned through the pandemic and what they’re doing to put the focus on the sacred nature of food.
Community Symposiums
Our Community Symposiums convened a community of rising and established talent in the food industry doing multi-layered work from food justice to food culture and arts. Our series of panels and talks have centered women-identified people of color to help level up each other’s work, think through our urban foodscape, develop ways to build community, and rise up through food-centered work. Through collaboration and ownership of our resources as a means of collective survival in mind, we built a space of active skill and knowledge sharing for a more inclusive and just food economy.
