Epices
The association Epices, an acronym for Espace de Projets d’Insertion Cuisine Et Santé, was founded by Isabelle Haeberlin in 2013 in Mulhouse. She provides cooking workshops for young people and adults, encouraging them to take care of themselves, adopt healthy eating habits and boost their self-esteem in order to achieve personal success. Epices is committed […]
Comal Heritage Food Incubator
The Comal Heritage Food Incubator is an integrated program of the Focus Points Family Resource Center in Denver, USA. It is both a restaurant and a catering business training program designed to support immigrant and refugee women. The program offers participants from countries as diverse as Mexico, Syria, Iraq and Ethiopia the opportunity to celebrate […]
Afuté & Biscornu
The project originated with Olivier Tran, the father of a child with severe autism spectrum disorders. Wanting to offer a future to his son, as well as to all disabled young people left behind, he launched two projects in 2020:
Refugee Food
Refugee Food was born out of a week-long festival held throughout France: restaurateurs open their kitchens to collaborate with refugee cooks to create four-hand menus. Created in 2016 by Marine Mandrila and Louis Martin, the project aims to change perceptions about refugees through cooking, accelerate their socio-professional integration, and promote fair and sustainable food for […]
Les Petites Cantines
Diane Dupré La Tour came up with the idea of creating a friendly canteen after local residents reached out to her at a difficult time in her life. Meals are an important part of our day, a time for sharing, exchanging and interacting… Unfortunately, many people spend them alone. Les Petites Cantines offers a convivial […]
Gastromotiva
Founded in 2006, by chef and social entrepreneur David Hertz Gastromotiva is an NGO whose mission is based in four pillars to promote social transformation through food: the development of people, income generation, hunger mitigation, and climate change and environmental preservation. Gastromotiva offers free professional courses related to the food industry and entrepreneurship. The organization […]
Everybody Eats
How to solve the major problem of wasting perfectly good food, while people go hungry and communities become increasingly disconnected. The answer is: Everybody Eats Founded in New Zealand by a successful restaurateur, Everybody Eats is an innovative social catering concept offering the community three-course meals with the quality of those served in a traditional […]
Geitmyra matkultursenter for barn
The Geitmyra matkultursenter for barn is a culinary center for children in Norway. Initially based in Oslo, the association is now present in three other towns: Kristiansand, Ringsaker and Tønsberg. Founder Andreas Viestad describes these centers as places where “food and the joy of cooking are used to engage with children on themes related to […]
FoodCycle
FoodCycle is a community dining charity that brings people together to share nourishing meals and conversation – tackling food insecurity, loneliness, and food waste. Each week volunteers across the country take part in a ‘Ready Steady Cook’ style challenge, transforming surplus ingredients that would otherwise go to waste into three-course vegetarian meals, served free to […]
The Edible Schoolyard Project
The Edible Schoolyard Project, a non-profit organization founded in 1995 by Alice Waters, was born of the idea of transforming the food supply in a California middle school. Now a veritable hub for food education, the site brings together organic school gardens, kitchens and cafeterias to teach both academic subjects and the values of food, […]
Tortellante
Tortellante is a therapeutic laboratory delivering vocational and qualifications where on-the- spectrum teenagers and adults learn to make fresh pasta by hand. The project began in January 2016, and has been integrated with educational activities linked to vocational diplomas to promote independence. The organization was created by Massimo Bottura in collaboration with the families.