What does 'good food' mean to you? How does food relate to our sense of identity, to our culture and to our sense of place?

Commissioned by Feeding Liverpool, Photographer Emma Case has spent time collecting stories from individuals and families within the local communities. Whilst cooking and eating together there have been rich conversations reflecting on what makes us who we are, how we connect to our roots and to each other.

We want people to have the power, voice and resources to shape their local food environments and the food system as a whole. Feeding Liverpool’s work focuses on enabling food citizenship, tackling food insecurity and improving access to good food.

Feeding Liverpool is the city’s food alliance, connecting and equipping people and organisations to work towards Good Food for All. In 2021 we started asking residents, ‘What does good food mean to you?’ We heard how good food can make us feel empowered, dignified, connected, joyful, nostalgic. Residents shared the importance of good food being for everyone, and how food is entwined with our senses of belonging, rootedness and connection to each other and this city.

Good Food; Our Food begins to share these stories.

A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed to this exhibition. Merseyside Polonia, Pakistan Association Liverpool (PAL), Chinese Wellbeing, Refugee Women Connect, Liverpool Irish Centre, Irish Community Care and the many communities who have contributed over the past two years. 

“I saw it all to its intended depths - crystal clear! The interviews were so resonant and contained some sort of thought process or realisation I’ve held at one point in time or another about my own identity, or relationship to food and my grandparents inevitable passing one day and what that will mean for me. The whole project runs parallel to my lived experience. It was lovely to see.” - Exhibition visitor

Our Good Food; Our Food exhibition launch at the Black-e was held on Saturday 20th May 2023. The event included the photography exhibition along with food from Bettylicious, Fozia’s and Big Bowl and art activities for all the family.

In 2023 we spent the Summer with four incredible youth groups across the city using the GFOF exhibition to explore and discuss what ‘Good Food’ means to them, the barriers young people face in accessing good food and how they would like the food systems to change in the future. 

Part of Liverpool’s Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme we facilitated workshops with 31 young people, aged 8-15. The young people cooked together, learnt photography skills to document their connections to food, and collaged ‘Good Food Headlines’ to show how our food systems might work better for us all.

A massive thank you to the young people and staff at the Alghazali Centre, The Cenny, Croxteth Gems and Walton Youth and Community Project. Thank you to our funders

Merseyside Play Action Council, 
Liverpool City Council and 

Torus Foundation.

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