Building memories around local food experiences
Attending a recent facilitated food discussion got me thinking about the psychological or food memories we bring to the food spaces we engage in and how these spaces may look in the future by understanding our own psychology. For me now these food spaces are a community garden, my home garden and kitchen, and a slow recovery mental health recovery kitchen and garden where I work. But in the past I ran my own little cafe. I grew up living above our family restaurant and later, my family started a bakery. My father died in a car crash on the way to work at the bakery one foggy morning. I was 9. I have wondered what my parents' food memories are and the reasons they choose the paths they did. My mum was born in 1943 and grew up on a farm in England run by her mother while my mum's father was in France and India fighting with the Allies during WII. She was sent off to boarding school at 9. My father was born in July 1939 and grew up in Nazi occupied Vienna duri...
