Step #2: Before You Start Cooking

Gather whatever raw ingredients you plan on using in the meal and assemble them on a surface near your workspace. 

Take a moment to look at the food in front of you, what will soon become the offering you bring to the table.

Imagine the land that produced this food – the magic of sunlight and photosynthesis, fungal networks, the invisible life collaborating on behalf of our collective harvest.

Imagine all of the people who worked the land so you can share in the bounty.

Imagine the indigenous communities displaced and irrevocably altered by the colonization of that same land.

So many have lived, grown, and died on the land we call home.

Ask yourself: How does the land I live on help me grow?

Record your response, then get cooking!