An Activist’s Kitchen.
An Activist’s Kitchen, Food & Stories from Across the World.
An Activist’s Kitchen is a vegan “comfort food” recipe book and podcast that gathers decolonial vegan recipes, food memories, and generational kitchen-wisdom from across the globe. This project, run in collaboration with Ajay Rastogi at the Vrikshalaya Centre in India, explores how food can become a site of resistance, resilience, healing, cultural survival, and ecological care.
By centring voices who are active in food, and social and climate justice, the project aims to share ways working with food that are an alternative to dominant western food narratives. An Activist’s Kitchen is both a cookbook and a political archive.
We invite you to nominate someone whose everyday work, with or without a public platform, nourishes their community and challenges inequitable food systems. This could be a grass-roots organiser addressing food inequity or food deserts, a grower or gardener expanding local access to fresh produce, a cultural worker preserving ancestral foodways, a healer or educator teaching de-colonial nutrition, or anyone using food as a tool for justice, resilience, and collective care.
They do not need to be a chef or be well-known; we’re looking for people whose impact is felt on the ground. If you’d like to put someone forward, please include a short bio and any relevant links so we can learn more about their work. We will respond to all your nominations and your stories and submissions will be handled with care.
The project is currently seeking funding to support research, community outreach, editorial development, collaborative workshops, and distribution.
For more information, please write to info at imaginarylife dot net.
