Donate
Give with a long view.
We're seeking substantial donations to grow community programming, support local culinary businesses, and carry food memories forward. Help us build work that lasts. Gifts of every size are welcome.
Discuss a donation(a) · A nonprofit for the table
Discover the world through food, stories, and community.
We preserve food stories, history, and traditions, and keep them alive through community programming, education, and research.
Based in Boston, Massachusetts
Rooted in Boston's communities. Majority women- and minority-owned and operated.Why Boston
Grants & funders
We're actively seeking grant partners.
Substantial grants and longer-term funding can deepen our research, education, and community connections, and help develop emerging culinary talent. Foundations and funders, let's explore what we can build together.
Explore grant partnerships(b) · Our mission in action
Every dish tells us where we come from.
We preserve the memories a meal carries: its taste, the people who made it, and the community it built. We keep food stories, histories, and traditions alive, and pass them to the next generation.
Our mission and commitmentsStories
Kitchens worth remembering
We sit with neighborhood restaurants, home cooks, and food artisans, and record the families, migrations, and memories behind every menu while the people who hold them are still here.
Read our storiesResearch
Connecting the dots
We study how food carries culture across generations, and we put what we learn back into circulation: new ways of thinking about an evolving field, and new connections between the people in it.
Explore our researchProgramming
Tables where stories get told
Potlucks, story nights, and family cooking sessions that bring new audiences to local culinary businesses, and help grow the talent that will one day run kitchens and organizations like theirs.
See our missionHow we work
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(c) · Our people
The people at the head of the table
(d) · The collection
Photographs, sketches, recipes, stories, interviews
A collection built to outlast us. Laura Somerville photographs the work, cooks hand over recipes and the stories behind them, and we're making room for sketches, interviews, and whatever else a kitchen leaves behind, so it reaches the next generation intact.
Photographs by Laura Somerville
(e) · Get involved
Pull up a chair. There's a place for you at the Culture Table.
Share a family recipe, record a story before it's gone, host a gathering, or support our work. Every seat makes the table a little more whole.