THE FOOD CULTURE PROJECT
EVENTS
Experience dinners, thematic salons, table-talks and collaborations are all bookable and can be customized to your interest.
We create multi-sensory dining experiences, and offer hands-on, real life and online food literacy programs. With this, we build communities and meaningful, lasting exchange, dialogue and shared knowledge.
LOCATIONS
The locations are changing, may be in private homes, or smaller public spaces anywhere in the world,always integrating local food culture and regional produce.
FOOD
As your host, myself or invited chefs or food artists, create and serve either a dinner, luncheon, or brunch. Whichever it is, it will be self-cooked with high quality organic produce and accompanied by good wine, or a trendy non-alcoholic cocktail.
Past Events
Past events
December 3, 2025
A Neuro-culinary Journey through Nature and the Future
with multi-sensory researcher & cognitive neuroscientist Aoife McGuinness, in collaboration with The Arts and Nature Social Club
Together with Aoife McGuinness, a multi-sensory researcher and cognitive neuroscientist, and in conversation with Magda Uribe (ANSC Board), we explored how our senses, memories, and the natural world intertwined, and what this meant for how we lived and our connection with food. Aoife brought a unique perspective at the crossroads of neuroscience, art, and sensory design. After years of applying neuroscience in industry and cultural research, from EEG and multi-sensory behavioral studies to the creation of sensory well-being environments. Kit Schulte, food experience explorer, chef, author, and founder of The Food Culture Project, created and curated the evening's immersive food experience, using aromas, textures, and settings to create a space for sensual discovery. This five-course dinner invited guests to sense, taste, and reflect on what a sustainable and bright future might feel like.
June 6, 2025, San Francisco · February 2025, Berlin
Finding Your Opus Magnum
Experience Dinner · photos: Nora Novak
Our Alchemy Experience dinner in San Francisco introduced our philosophy of science dinner salons. Guests were invited to a unique multi-sensory experience, journeying through the four alchemical stages—Nigredo (Black), Albedo (White), Citrinitas (Yellow), and Rubedo (Red)—to achieve the Opus Magnum, symbolizing personal transformation and becoming "GOLD." Through food, participants explored how alchemy blended proto-science with mysticism, seeking to turn base metals into gold and create an elixir of immortality. The dinner also highlighted Carl Jung's psychological interpretation of alchemy as a metaphor for inner growth, leaving a legacy in both chemistry and psychological theory.
March 2022 · Washington D.C.
Journey through Culinary Germany
German Embassy, Washington D.C., US
"Journey through Culinary Germany" was hosted by Dr. Emily Haber as a 7-8 course experience dinner showcasing modern German cuisine, as a cultural historical journey. Guests enjoyed dishes paired with wine and beer, while learning about Germany's culinary regions, history, and evolutionary transformations of traditional recipes.
2021–2022 · Book tour
German Food Culture in Context – A perspective on the past, present and future
Readings and lectures with tastings: June 2022, Goethe Institute, Oslo, Norway · September 2021, Goethe Institute, Boston, MA, US · September 2021, Atlanta Consulate General, Atlanta, US · September 2021, SF General Consulate, San Francisco, US
In my talk, I explored how food culture reflects history, societal connections, and our relationship with the land—all of which evolve due to geo-political, natural, and technological shifts. I highlighted how dishes like sauerkraut, kimchi, and cabbage rolls, though culturally unique, share common roots, and how studies reveal that most national crops originated elsewhere. While working on my cookbook, Modern German Food from a Berlin Kitchen, I reimagined traditional German dishes by focusing on vegetables, herbs, and foraged ingredients, blending old artisanal methods with contemporary trends. Through a 40-45 minute presentation with visuals, I invited the audience to question why German cuisine is still defined by stereotypes like schnitzel and bratwurst, and to envision a future where forgotten flavors and sustainable, plant-based cooking take center stage.
2015/2016 · Satellite Berlin
The Land of Cockaigne (Luilekkerland)
Artist: Christopher Winter
In medieval mythology, Cockaigne—also known as Cockayne—was an imaginary land of extreme luxury and ease, a place of endless plenty where physical comforts and pleasures were always within reach. It offered an escape from the harsh realities of medieval life, embodying the dreams of farmers and laborers alike. Inspired by the Brothers Grimm's Hansel and Gretel (1812), where the children encountered a witch's gingerbread house, our exhibition invited audiences to reflect on the contradictions of modern first-world societies. On the 1st of Advent, visitors were welcomed to explore The Land of Plenty through Christopher Winter's gingerbread house—a symbol of abundance, guilt, and the fear of loss that haunts our world. During the exhibition, Winter invited the audience to literally eat the house. The timed performance was recorded on film as viewers destroyed the house, and the footage was later displayed alongside the ruins, capturing the fleeting nature of plenty and the act of consumption.
