FoodLab’s Tea Talk Tuesdays Continues July 7 With Author Kate Rabinowitz

Tea Talk Tuesdays, hosted by The FoodLab at Stony Brook Southampton, will continue on Tuesday, July 7 with Kate Rabinowitz, author of Kate's Recipes for Living.

Rabinowitz will join certified nutritional consultant Michelle Fiordaliso in conversation about "Food as a Form of Connection, Culture, and Community." The event is free and open to the public and will be held from 3:30 to 5:30 pm at the Carriage House on the Stony Brook Southampton campus.

Kate's Recipes for Living returns food to something essential: an expression of cultural traditions, a way to forge connection, and build community. This conversation explores how the act of preparing and sharing food, whether alone at a kitchen counter or among a crowded table, is in and of itself a form of nourishment.

The event will also consider food as medicine, not only in a scientific, nutritional way but in the psychospiritual sense. With cooking, there's an alchemical process. Experiences and emotions get transformed into something that can be shared communally. What we eat sustains the body and soul - the conversation will go further into what it means to grow our food or source it locally. How can we be informed about the systems that bring food to our tables and make conscious choices?

Rabinowitz is a chef, artist, and yoga teacher. Trained in gourmet, macrobiotic and Ayurvedic cooking, she has fifty years of experience in holistic healing practices. She lives on the East End of Long Island and directs The Anna Mirabai Lytton Foundation for Arts and Wellness.

Her view reflects five decades of living internationally, practicing a whole food lifestyle, ayurveda, macrobiotics, and teaching yoga. Eating with intention is living with intention. Meals can heal in ways beyond what's on the plate.This discussion asks what it means to nourish ourselves, each other, and the world we share.

The FoodLab operates as a hub of hands-on education and engagement. Through dynamic programs in sustainable agriculture, food studies, and culinary innovation, it equips students, practitioners and the public with the tools to understand and influence the complex systems that shape what we eat, and how it's grown.

Its campus includes teaching gardens, test plots and a growing number of spaces for workshops, gatherings, and research. From immersive farm-to-classroom training to regional symposiums that bring together national thought leaders, The FoodLab continues to grow as a place where knowledge meets practice.