We’re building a Story Library, jam-packed with powerful & personal stories from the Real Food Real Stories community. While we finish construction, we invite you to dig in and sample this curated teaser, featuring some of our favorites from over the years.
F E A T U R E D C O L L E C T I O N
Future of Plenty
Dream big & savor 3 stories of abundance for our food future from writer & Real Food Real Stories founder, Pei-Ru Ko, Afrofuturist writer, scholar, & creator of Sistah Vegan, Dr. A. Breeze Harper, and up-and-coming Indigenous Zapotec food leader & creator of Mi Oaxaca, Fabiola Santiago!
Check out some of our team’s go-to’s…
KELLLY CARLISLE
FOUNDER OF YOUTH URBAN FARM PROJECT,
ACTA NON VERBA
“I wanted the kids to be able to farm and get down in the dirt and really feel the magic of growing...”
REEM ASSIL
COMMUNITY ORGANIZER & CREATOR OF REEM’S CALIFORNIA
“Food is the new frontier of organizing. If we can capture people’s hearts through these very human things that make us feel alive, we can get a lot done. ”
NIK SHARMA
WRITER, PHOTOGRAPHER & CREATOR OF A BROWN TABLE & A BROWN KITCHEN
“I hadn’t realized that photographing myself was such a divisive topic. The color of my skin next to food made them uncomfortable and angry.”
NIKIKO MASUMOTO
ORGANIC FARMER, MEMORY KEEPER & ARTIST
“One of the beautiful things about following the names is it gets us to ask cultural questions about our foodsheds. It gets us to think about food in a cultural landscape in addition to a physical landscape. ”
Tune in to some of our most-watched stories…
VINNY ENG
FOUNDING MEMBER OF SF NEW DEAL & AWARD-WINNING SOMMELIER
STORYSLAM 2021
”There is enough food in this world to feed everyone with dignity. Believe it. Commit to it. So be it, see to it.”
CORRINA GOULD
ACTIVIST & FOUNDER OF
SOGOREA TE’ LAND TRUST
EXPLORING INDIGENOUS FOODWAYS
”How do we go backwards? How can we live in reciprocity again?….It takes all of us.”
TU DAVID PHU
ACCLAIMED CHEF
STORYSLAM 2019
”I started cooking because it was my way of being honest with myself and who I am. I started cooking because I found truth in food.”
YANA GILBUENA
CELEBRATED CHEF & DEATH DOULA
GRIEF MEDICINE
”So when I cook and say, ‘I want to capture the taste of home,’ what I really mean is, ‘I want you to know the love I had. My Lola’s love for me.”
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