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.
Food is also a portal. When we change how we eat, we begin to change how we live.
Our modern hungers reveal what many of us are craving right now: connection, meaning, rhythm, care.
WUNDERLAND KITCHEN is a food education pop-up program.
We partner with schools, libraries, and food literacy organizations to create multisensory food experiences that help people taste more, listen deeply, and rewrite their own menus.
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.
Through tasting, remixing, and storytelling, participants learn to trust their senses and feelings, reflect on their food memories, and find their way back to delicious.
This is food agency.
Not nutrition education or a cooking class.
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 Korean 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, Teams)
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, Teams)
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, Teams)
What does longing taste like? Step into a guided chocolate tasting that explores belonging and caring more through your senses. Smell, taste, and reflect together while sharing flavors that carry 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, Teams)
Or design a custom flavor with us. What questions become possible when we eat them? From speculative dinners like Restaurant on Mars to explorations of trust like Taste of Space, we co-design experiences that meet your big questions.
READY TO WUNDERLAND?
Transform your classroom, community program, and teambuild into a multisensory storytelling lab.
We’d love to cook something up with you,
junejo@foodethnographer.com
philip@readerstoeaters.com
