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The latest bulletin from The Common Table<\/a><\/em> reached subscribers last Wednesday, May 29, this time announcing an article titled “Food Thinking<\/a>.” The article’s premises were inviting, in that it works across a few theoretical beacons, Anna Tsing<\/a>, Horst Rittel<\/a>, and Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby<\/a>, to expand the thesis that food studies is suited to dusting off design thinking, reviving again those dimensions of design thinking that have worn thin or blinked out. You’ll find good stuff there, worthy of reading and worthy of returns, on mindsets, or questioning attitudes; with such practiced, inquisitive dispositions follows something almost ritualistic in noticing taken-for-granted interdependencies, in a feel for the organism, whether the corn plant or the baby bok choy leafing dark green hopeful from the raised beds where we planted them in mid-May. I don’t quite identify with design<\/em> powerfully enough to prefer that same language (or field of specialization), but I did read in this piece something akin to a foodwise<\/em> network sense, an atoll whose cartographic attempts I imagine would be delicious and intriguing at once. And this, in turn, relayed me to look around at more of The Common Table<\/em>, to explore a few of the other recently published pieces beyond “Mother’s Hand Taste<\/a>,” the piece on Jiwon Woo’s ever-fascinating work about son-mat<\/em>, which I wrote about a few months<\/a> ago and also explored in the spring semester with students who were taking Food Writing<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is much to admire, appreciate, and learn from at The Common Table<\/em>. I found especially standout the series “On Food and Education,” which follows the pattern of five-question interviews. The five questions invite responses from a host of respondents, and each is featured in elegant, readable posts, organized with the questions as the governing structure. The five questions are <\/p>\n\n\n\n