WUNDERLAND
KITCHEN
Food Education Program
by June Jo Lee,
Food Ethnographer
MIRROR, MIRROR
ON YOUR SPOON
What’s your unforgettable bite?
A loving mouthful? A tricky food?
A taste that changed you?
Food is a mirror.
It reflects who we are,
where we’re from,
and how we live.
Food is also a portal.
Change how you eat,
and you begin to change your life.
WUNDERLAND KITCHEN creates hands-on food culture pop-ups.
We work with schools, libraries, and organizations who believe food is culture, literacy, and public good. We bring flavor experiences that invite food back in as care, connection, and communication.
We begin with real questions people bring to the table.
I don’t know what to eat.
I don’t know how to cook.
I don’t have enough time.
These are not just food problems. They are modern hungers for more meaning, rhythm, belonging, and aliveness.
Flavor is life.
When you taste with your whole body, you begin to trust yourself again.
Your flavor. Your life.
Your way back to delicious.
How do you want the world to taste?
And how can we make more of that?
This is food agency.
Not nutrition education.
Not a cooking class.
When people are invited to taste, make, and share together, they begin to see themselves and others more clearly. What questions become possible when you eat them?
“Making kraut-chi together is way better than Diana, my therapist.”
- 8yo, Berkeley Public Library
“The team arrived after a long hard day of unilateral working. In our team-build, I saw them expand and become multidimensional.”
- Christine, Director, Google
CHOOSE YOUR FLAVOR
Each 60-minute pop-up is designed around one simple food activity such as fermenting, remixing, or guided tasting. All we need is a sink. We bring the rest.
Did you know sauerkraut is German for Korean kimchi 김치?
Make colorful, fizzy kraut-chi to take home while exploring the magic of foods with more life. Swap fermentation stories. Reflect on your flavors of home. Science. Culture. Transformation in a jar.
Inspired by Sandor Katz and The Tiny Wild.
For Kids, Families, Teens, Adults, Teams.
How are you digesting hard transitions?
Heatwaves. Tangled timelines. Rising tempers. It can all feel like a spicy hot mess. What if we could ferment that energy into nourishment?Come for the kimchi-making. Stay for the world-making.
Inspired by Chef Roy Choi and The Street Food Remix.
For Families, Teens, Adults, Teams.
Kimchi in a taco? Yes, please!
Mix. Dip. Wrap. A leaf, seaweed, or tortilla becomes ssam 쌈, a tasty wrap. Make your own Awesome Sauce. Spicy or sweet? Fall in love with vegetables as flavor stories travel across cultures and generations.
Inspired by Kimchi Taco Time (Fall 2026). For Kids, Families, Teens, Adults, Teams.
Bibim-bap Remix
How do you make a bowl sing?
Start with bap 밥. Rice is safety. Add ban-chan 반찬. Colors. Textures. More life. Mix. Taste. Find your hero bite. Turn leftovers into belonging. Turn your bowl into a neighborhood remix.
Inspired by Chef Roy Choi and The Street Food Remix.
For Families, Teens, Adults, Teams.
Can you taste the love between a human and a cacao tree?
Enter a guided chocolate tasting that awakens your pleasure senses. See. Smell. Feel. Reflect. Explore how flavors carry stories of farmers, soil, and edible forests.
Inspired by sensory ethnography and Kiki’s Cocoa.
For Teens, Families, Adults, Teams.
What would a pocha on Mars serve?
Pocha 포차 is a street food tent where friends gather to sip, snack, and stay a while. Taste planetary longing. Share edible futures.. What will we carry into the future? What will we leave behind?
Designed for groups navigating complexity and change.
For Adults, Teams.
What questions become possible when we eat them?
Choose a signature pop-up or design a custom flavor.
From speculative dinners like Restaurant on Mars to trust-building tastings like Taste of Space, we co-create experiences that hold your big questions and ferment them together.
READY TO WUNDERLAND?
Transform your classroom, culture day, community program, or team gathering into a multi-sensory storytelling lab.
Each pop-up is tailored to age group, group size, and context. Led by June Jo Lee, food ethnographer, TED speaker, and award- winning picture book author.
We’d love to cook something up with you.
