1. We had been brainstorming for
hours and were on the verge of
calling it a night.

2. kitchens
Throughout
History
global
issues

3. What does
it all mean?!
IS
WHERE ING?!
O
THIS G

4. We Just Decided to start
writing everything we could
think of As it came out.

5. Food
+
Culture
is a
our culture the
product of !
food we eat

6. d we
And the foo rly —a result
of
ove ion
eat is often our product
processed system
—And our
this very one-time-use
consumer
mentality has mentality.
led to our waste
and resource
crisis!

7. The connections kept building until
somewhere in the muddle of words
and the smell of dry erase markers,
a circle had formed, and the kitchen
was in the middle of all of it.

8. The kitchen was not
the problem at all—It was
all of the larger systems we
interact with everyday and
they converged in
the kitchen!
The kitchen had transformed
into an Ecosystem with resources
cycling in and out and our
challenge was to make it a
much healthier ecosystem.