Food Is Not Just Food: Reclaiming Our Tables and Our Power

Pull up a chair for a soulful conversation about food, culture, and community!

For us, food has never been just food. It’s memory. It’s resistance. It’s joy. It’s how we have loved, organized, healed, and built community — even in the hardest times.

From the cookfires of the enslaved to the cafés of the Harlem Renaissance to today’s kitchen tables, our meals have carried the stories of who we are and what we’ve survived. But in a world that glorifies hustle, isolation, and convenience, many of us have lost the table — that sacred space where culture and connection live.

Ama-Robin brings it all home with truth and tenderness, exploring how we can reclaim the table as a revolutionary act of care and collective power. You’ll hear about the history of Black food gathering spaces, the challenges of modern disconnection, and what it means to cook and eat from our roots again.

And because reflection must lead to action, she offers ten concrete ways to reclaim the table — from small daily rituals to community-building gatherings that feed both body and spirit.

Food connects us. Food reminds us. And when we come together around it, we are unstoppable.

Listen and learn:

• Why food is a form of resistance, not just nourishment

• How communal meals build strength, belonging, and joy

• What we lose when we abandon our cultural tables

• Ten practical ways to reclaim food as a tool of liberation and love

Pull up your chair. Pour your tea. Grab your plate.
This isn’t just a talk about food — it’s a call to remember that together, we are the table.