eating being well

— shaping space for hospitalities

by Jeremy Fernando

To eat is to enter into relationship. With others, with place, with memory, with the unseen and the unspoken. In this rich and reflective text, Jeremy Fernando invites us to rethink eating as more than nourishment. It becomes an act of communion, of risk, of shaping space through gestures of hospitality and care.

Drawing on philosophy, literature, and lived experience, the piece unfolds as a meditation on what it means to eat well, to live well, and to be with. What happens when a meal becomes a threshold? Who do we become when we taste, when we touch, when we welcome?

A version of this paper was first presented at the Shaping Gastronomy congress, organised by the International Society for Gastronomic Sciences and Studies at L’università di Scienze Gastronomiche di Pollenzo, 26 to 28 September 2024.

We are honoured to share it as part of Transmissions, a space within Pup and Tiger for writing, interviews, and reflections that carry creative thought across disciplines, borders, and ways of being.

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-Transmissions is an ongoing Pup & Tiger series sharing voices across queer art and cultural practice through interviews, essays, and experimental texts. Pup & Tiger is an independent, queer-led contemporary art organisation based in Canterbury, UK, bringing artists, writers, and audiences together through exhibitions, editions, events, and publishing.