BREAKING DOWN CULTURAL BARRIERS THROUGH FOOD
Immigrant Kitchen is a larger, ticketed dinner event that explores what it means to be an immigrant in this country.
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The Table is a 14-person dinner party featuring BIPOC home cooks, facilitated by chef and food writer Mecca Bos.
OUR THEORY OF CHANGE:
We are stronger together.
BIPOC Foodways Alliance provides a platform for marginalized communities to tell their authentic stories using the powerful tool of home cooking. We bring in an intentionally diverse audience to partake in these experiences, which we document with the help of BIPOC creators.
Hearing stories through shared food breaks down cultural barriers and builds empathy, understanding, and cross-cultural competence.
Cross-cultural competence
Antiracism
Storytelling
Allyship
Why BIPOC Foodways Alliance?
"Attending a BFA Table where I got to enjoy Khmer cuisine was such a beautiful and delicious experience. Not only was everything on the menu prepared with such care and love but everyone around the table made the evening so special. It was truly a global table as there were more than ten countries represented and the storytelling and laughter we all shared made it feel like home. BFA is doing the work that we all need in our communities– a space where our cultures are uplifted, our cuisines are preserved and shared and most of all a space where we can all gather around the table and have honest, genuine conversations."
Alexandra Antoine
BFA Table guest
“I love attending the BIPOC Foodways Alliance Immigrant Kitchen Dinners. For me, they have been like a photo album in real time; real life. The meals evoke much emotion and joy and comfort in me. I get to learn and eat. I feel welcomed and cared for before I even take my seat! It’s like one big family reunion with all colors of relatives that have come from far and wide to be together. Like family members you have not been able to see in a very long time. Family you didn’t even know you had. Being historically black in America I have been searching for my culture. Wanting to travel to places that I cannot afford. But as of late I have discovered that I can travel to those faraway places that I dream to go to through food. Food has become my passport. I am traveling and reconnecting and discovering and living and loving through every meal.”
Stayci Bell
BFA Table guest
“At a time when immigrant rights are under attack and the stories in our news feed are filled with hate, BIPOC Foodways Alliance and Immigrant Kitchen creates essential third spaces for community, connection, conversation and love; all over a home cooked meal. BFA feels like home.
As a storyteller featured in a BIPOC Foodways piece, I have infinite gratitude for the entire team for sharing my family food story with care and intention. I will always support the work they do and will pull up to their meals knowing I'll be met with good people and delicious food.”
-Ryan Stopera
BFA host and filmmaker
