WUNDERLAND
KITCHEN
Food Education Program by June Jo Lee
Food Ethnographer and Author
Mirror, mirror, on your spoon…
What’s your unforgettable bite?
A loving mouthful? A tricky food?
A taste that changes you?
Food is a mirror. It reflects who we are, where we came from, and how we live life. Our modern hungers reveal what many of us are craving right now: connection, meaning, foodlife rhythm, care.
Food is also a portal. When we change how we eat, we begin to change how we live.
WUNDERLAND KITCHEN is a food education pop-up program.
We partner with schools, libraries, healthcare organizations, and mission driven food businesses to create multisensory food experiences that help people listen deeply, tell better stories, and imagine new possibilities together.
We begin with the real questions people bring to the table,
I don’t know what to eat.
I don’t know how to cook.
And, I don’t have enough time.
This is not nutrition education or cooking class.
It is the practice of food agency.
Through tasting, making, and storytelling, participants learn to trust their senses and feelings, reflect on their food memories, and find their way back to delicious.
Each pop-up is a 60-90 minutes experience built around a simple food activity such as fermenting, remixing, or guided tasting.
Tailored by age group and organizational context, designed for up to 30 participants, and led by June Jo Lee, food ethnographer, TED speaker, and award winning picture book author.
CHOOSE YOUR FLAVOR
Did you know sauerkraut is German for kimchi? Learn about microbes, fermentation, and transformation while making colorful, fizzy kraut-chi to take home. Inspired by Sandor Katz and The Tiny Wild. (For Youth, Families, Adults)
Bibim-bap Remix
How do you make a bowl your own? Start with rice as your base note. Add more life to reflect how you feel and how you want to live. Colors, flavors, and textures make your bowl sing. Mix, dip, wrap, and roll your own way to delicious. Inspired by Chef Roy Choi and The Street Food Remix. (For Teen, Families, Adults)
So much is bubbling up in our climate, in our lives. Heatwaves. Tangled timelines. Rising tempers. It can all feel like a spicy hot mess. How can this energy nourish us? Come for the kimchi-making. Stay for the culture-making. Inspired by Chef Roy Choi and The Street Food Remix. (For Teens, Adults)
What does longing taste like? Step through a guided chocolate tasting that explores belonging and caring more through the senses. Smell, taste, and reflect together while learning how flavor carries feelings and stories. Inspired by sensory ethnography and ritual tasting practices. (For Teens, Adults, Teams)
What will we carry into the future? What will we leave behind? Taste planetary longing and edible data, while speculating about food cultures beyond Earth. Designed for groups navigating complexity, transition, or the next big question. (For Adults)
Or design a custom flavor with us.
What questions become possible when we eat them?
Transform your classroom, community program, and teambuild into a multisensory storytelling lab.
Ready to WUNDERLAND?
We’d love to cook something up with you.
junejo@foodethnographer.com
philip@readerstoeaters.com
