When we engage in debate, it is important to acknowledge that our emotional responses come from our experiences and our origins. This reveals the need for empathy in understanding our differences not as an objective truth which only one has discovered but as co-existent interpretations that deserve understanding and compromise if we are ever to diverge from the hostility that seems to be the focus of much modern political discourse.
Read MoreBefore Dr Nicholas Thompson’s lecture, I would’ve said the sharing of food in my life is nothing special. It’s just something social; but that’s just the thing, that IS what makes it special. It’s the people around...
Read MoreWhat do we “do” food for? Ourselves? Survival? Sustenance? One aspect of our Plate 1 lectures so far that has stood out to me is the overarching idea of food being presented in its more spiritual place in peoples...
Read MoreMost people would answer no, but not my little brother. The story happened when I was in China, trying to get my little brother to sleep by naming every kind of food with (to bore) him and categorising them by types pf...
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Recently I’ve been thinking about how great an impact the sharing of food can be on developing...
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