The Dual Powers of Food Stories: Strengthening our communities

“Food is a powerful vehicle for storytelling.”

This is a sentiment that is all over the internet. A google search using the search term: “power of food for storytelling” comes back with over fifty million results in less than one second.

When I started Culinary Communities with the goal of harnessing the power of food to satisfy our hunger-to-belong, I imagined community building. I imagined bringing people together over food and ‘lengthening our tables’ while telling stories. I imagined gatherings…