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When the pandemic started, I put out a call to anyone who had their conference or public talk or event cancelled, to see if they wanted to share some of the foundational ideas from those events in podcast form. My guest this week is Simone Johnson, who took me up on the offer after her guest talk on fermentation was cancelled. Something I always marvel at is how many folks I get to meet and connect with through this show I wouldn\\u2019t have otherwise, and I\\u2019m always so thankful for it.

Simone\\xa0is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City with a background in urban agriculture and performance art. Over the last couple of years, she has gravitated toward the culinary art world, seeking to cook with friends and help prepare community meals in art spaces.

Simone\\xa0started Cosmos to Kitchen in 2017, and over time it has become a long term mixed media project that mainly focuses on cooking and other topics like foraging and wild foods, seed stewardship, zero waste, energetics, sensory studies, somatics, movement and the body. Through hand made and digital collages, photography, audio recordings, sound art and writing,\\xa0Simone\\xa0captures these areas of study mostly through a spiritual lens, embracing uncensored \\u2018woo woo\\u2019 ways of knowing and art-making. These topics are also explored through personal, cultural/ancestral, political and ecological viewpoints.

She\\u2019s on today to share some of the lasting lessons and experiences she\\u2019s had in the Cosmos to Kitchen project, and showcasing how spirituality, art, and food can all work together to create some powerful and beautiful knowledge.

Social:

Instagram: @cosmostokitchen

Website: https://dancewithsimone.wordpress.com/what-is-cosmos-to-kitchen/

Fermentation Materials:

• MARSH: Materializing and Activating Radical Social Habitus\\xa0(where I was going to perform)
• From Birth, Our Microbes Become As Personal as a Fingerprint\\xa0
• Forget Fingerprints--in the Future We\'ll Be Identified by Gut Bacteria\\xa0
• What ancient African fermentation techniques reveal about probiotics
• Fermentation is back: how will living organisms reshape your plate?
• Universe in a Jar: Fermentation makes a comeback