Play with Your Food!
Tasting events, playful food gatherings, and participatory formats
where food becomes a way of
meeting, thinking, and experimenting.
Not every gathering around food has to look the same.
Some are tastings, some are conversations, some are games, and some move somewhere in between.
Play With Your Food brings together flavour, curiosity, and participation in formats that can be shaped for different groups, spaces, and occasions.
#Who it is for
Who is it for?
Play With Your Food can be shaped for different kinds of gatherings. Some formats belong easily in cultural and community spaces, some in schools or teams, and some around smaller tables that need their own mood, pace, or invitation.
cultural spaces
teams
schools
community groups
small tables
curious eaters
#Ways to Play
Play With Your Food brings together tasting events, playful food gatherings, and participatory formats that do not fit neatly into one category. Some are built around flavour, some around conversation, some around a shared task, question, or prompt. What they share is that food is not only there to be eaten, but also to open interaction, curiosity, and exchange.
Tasting
Events
Guided, themed, or experimental tastings shaped through flavour, pacing, and shared attention.
Participatory Gatherings
Formats where guests respond, combine, choose, discuss, or shape part of the table together.
Food Games & Playful Formats
Sessions built around prompts, playful rules, sensory tasks, or table-based invitations to interact.
Custom Sessions
Sessions designed for a specific group, question, context, or occasion.
#Existing Formats
These are existing Play With Your Food formats with their own structure, mood, and way of unfolding. Each one has a recognisable core, while still shifting in scale, pacing, and emphasis depending on the group, the setting, and the occasion.
A Toast to Bitters A tasting-led format built around bitterness, slowness, ritual, and conversation.
Emotion Cookies A tasting-led format built around bitterness, slowness, ritual, and conversation.
Experimental Canapé A tasting-led format built around bitterness, slowness, ritual, and conversation.
#How it works
Step 1 —
You start with a format or an idea
If you already know which existing format you are interested in, you can start through the enquiry form linked on that format. If what you have is more open-ended, such as a group, occasion, mood, or question, you can simply write by e-mail and we can shape it from there.
Step 2 —
We shape the session in context
Whether you begin with an existing format or a more open idea, we look at the group, setting, flow, food, and any dietary or access-related considerations that need to shape the session.
Step 3 —
We refine the session
Together, we clarify the practical setup, pacing, food elements, and any dietary or access-related notes that need to be part of the structure before the session takes place.
Step 4 —
We host, prepare, or deliver
Depending on the format, we may facilitate the session, prepare the food, bring prompts or materials, or shape the event together with the organiser or host.
Step 5 —
Notes & Feedback
After the session, we would love to gather feedback to understand what stayed with the group, what worked in context, and what might shift in the next round.
#Accessibility
Food Access Matters
Through the Food Access Rider, Kitchen Testimonies makes space for ingredient clarity, dietary notes, cross-contact awareness, and condition-specific considerations from the beginning, so participation can be shaped with more clarity and care.
Let's shape it together!
You can begin with an existing format or come with a group, occasion, mood, or question in mind. Either way, we can shape the next step from there.
#Get in Touch
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